Re: [Libphidget-devel] Documentation?

[Jack S. <js...@ja...>]

On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 02:30, Vadim Tkachenko wrote:
> According to Jack Strohm:
> > On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 00:20, Vadim Tkachenko wrote:
> > > > > Maybe it is so in C++ world. However, speaking for myself, I've spent last 7
> > > > > years in Java and got eventually fed up with it for one simple reason: it's
> > > > > BIG. OK, you can put together something in a day that you'd spend a month
> > > > > doing in C++ (collections, threading, etc.), fine, but the weight of the
> > > > > resulting code is just overwhelming.
> > > > 
> > > > when you say weight, what do you mean?
> > > 
> > > In particular, memory footprint. Speed is not encouraging, either. Maybe
> > > it's just me with my tendency to write generic code and not optimize it, I
> > > don't know.
> > 
> > memory . . . you mean it takes more than 512 megs to run?  I figure
> > anything under 512 megs is pretty light  ;-)
> 
> 40-60M for a process that is supposed to be "just one of the daemons" is way
> too much...

I don't expect this library to take more than 100k when done, hopefully
much less.