[nylug-talk] Free -m shows 300MB usage after upgrade to 1GB.

[H. G.]

On Jan 2, 2008 3:16 PM, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:04:35PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> > > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > Remember "Write once, run anywhere"?  Bwahahahaha...
> > > >
> > > > Lee
> > >
> > > Hmmm ... I must be missing the humor.  On each of the last 3 *major*
> > > Java apps that I worked on, we just one day decided to try running
> them
> > > on a different OS than they were written on, and each of them *just*
> > > *worked*.  Try that with C++.
> > >
> > > DR
> >
> > A fairer comparison would be to one of: tcl, perl, ruby or python.
> >
> > I don't think that java's portability is remarkable compared to any of
> > these.
>
>   One unfortunate thing with all of the languages is that portability must
> be
> explicitly kept in mind as a design goal if it's desired, even when the
> language is considered to be automatically portable, because each of the
> languages seem to have non-portable pieces available or there are other
> issues that make things non-portable.  Each example has a counter-example,
> so
> I'll just leave it at that.
>
> ie, Just another example of the Law of Leaky Abstractions
"*All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky."*

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html