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by acveilleux
3946 days ago
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When Java came out into the open, I had 16 MB of RAM in my 486 and that was more than most of my friends. A long take 4 bytes allocated on the stack so no GC overhead. A pentium 133 was bleeding edge and 64MB of RAM was Unix workstation territory. In that backdrop, seemingly bad trade off get made for execution performance and to compile the code in a reasonable amount of time. More accurate would've been that the decision has not aged very well. |
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