Michael Turner wrote:
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> > Java isn't an interpreted language.
>
> A matter of perspective, I guess. To me, virtual machine
> code is interpreted; JIT compilation is an optimization of
> an interpreter.
Sure, but Java bytecode is something different from the Java
language.
> > Garbage collection adds to memory
> > costs but not hugely, and it's better than having memory leaks.
>
> I'm a little more concerned about the computation overhead,
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Garbage-collection rather than explicit freeing generally saves
time, actually.
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Received on Tue Apr 24 10:31:17 2001