java memory usage
807599Mar 21 2007 — edited Mar 22 2007My irc client is jircii, which is written in Java. I noticed that on OSX, it has a 40 megabyte RSS and 600 megabyte VSZ. I tried another irc client written in Java, and it has nearly the same memory usage. I wrote simple Hello World programs. The swing version has a 25 megabyte RSS, and the java.util version has a 12 megabyte RSS. Isn't that excessive for hello world?
Estimating the memory usage by subtracting a 25 megabyte Java overhead still leaves the irc client using 15 megabytes. I would like to see more reasonable resource usage. Does something like J2ME exist that targets the Mac and PC?