Thus spake Thomas Russ: > > On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Justin Morgan wrote: > > > > > My question is, why can't Java allocate memory as needed? It seems > > to put itself in a box which reduces the flexibility of a multi- > > purpose language. > > My guess is that this is part of the legacy of the sandboxing to make > web-launched applications unable to gobble up your entire memory. It > stops a certain class of denial of service attacks and can stop > runaway or malicious programs from exhausting your available memory.
That's precisely the reason. I've often wished that it were possible to tell the Java virtual machine to use however much memory it needs, but that's not been in the cards, unfortunately. -- J.
