Oct 16, 2020

> Java's high memory usage

I would rather optimize for performance and energy use at the cost of higher memory use.

See recent SN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24642134

https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...

Memory is a one time capital cost and gets cheaper over time.

Feb 27, 2020

Interestingly, this has been studied.

https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...

There's a quicker writeup here if slogging through paper's isn't how you want to spend your time.

https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-l...