> Dan Davies Brackett wrote:
> apps.  It really is quite unfortunate that these
> things are piggy as
> they are.  This is a strong argument against writing
> "standard" system
> software in Java, IMO -- the equivalent C
> functionality would probably
> be much, much smaller.  And I doubt the problem is
> the Java code.  Even
> JSpider on my AMD64 Ultra20 is 94 MB.  The JVM is a
> pig.
> 
>     -- Garrett

Well, you will be happy to know that upcoming Java releases are expected to 
provide significant improvements in this area (from what I've been told). So, 
hold out a bit longer...
 
 
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