On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 09:39, Jens Zurawski wrote:
> A class static member is never freed, once the
> class is loaded.
A pedantic nitpick! :-)
A class static member can be freed, when the classloader is eligible
for GC. In the context of NetBeans modules, OSGi, etc. then that
could be
Others already have written good points to this question. I just want to
add my 2 cents.
Netbeans is doing a lot of stuff in the background and it's using a
significant amount of RAM for speeding things up. A professor of mine
once said something like "If you have a lot of RAM and you don't
