Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 Feature List?

On 8/12/2004 8:53 PM, Richard Welty wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:36:13 -0400 Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> wrote:
>> >>>>> "RW" == Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net> writes:
>> RW> i'm quite experienced in C and Java, so it's going to be in one of
>> RW> those two.  any comments from anyone on the language choice?
>
>> eRServer is written in Java.  It sucks up about 200Mb+ virtual memory
>> for a teeny-tiny little database.  I'd avoid java :-)
>
> java often sucks up too much memory. java doesn't have to suck
> up too much memory, it just usually gets written that way.

Right. The garbage collection automatically taking care of unreferenced
objects as a stop-gap for resource leakage is abused by lazy programmers
as a general purpose cleanup mechanism.


Jan

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