[nylug-talk] Excesive memory usage by Java (ranty)

[Michael Bacarella]

> > since Java people obviously don't understand UNIX.
>
> Should I take an offense to that, or is Java bashing a regular part of
> the group?

Don't take offense, I was being polite by keeping the alternate
explanation to myself.

This ignorance of UNIX is undoubtedly true, because the Java standard
API provides no functions equivalent to link() or truncate() which
makes a whole host of file operations difficult and/or unreliable.