[clug] Why isn't Java popular on the Linux Desktop? [SEC=PERSONAL]

[Jason Stokes]

> You are aware, Sam, that there are a whole slew of systems that use garbage
> collection, and which /don't/ require this same preallocation, right?

Sure, including the current Sun Java implementation, in which you can specify
an initial allocation and a maximum heap size, and the VM will vary between
those two limits.  An awful lot of the stereotypes about Java performance
seem to date from a very early incarnation of the VM.



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