[Help-smalltalk] Re: OO languages are spoiling us...

[Paolo Bonzini]

I'm forwarding an obvious point from Stefan on memory usage, that he 
wrote to me offlist:

> > >  Only negative point, garbage is not reclaimed well so running "ruby
> > >  mech.rb 80" twice will take 174 megabytes.  I didn't check whether
> > >  compacting between the two runs would affect the memory consumption.
>
> That's not too bad, since the web app does not know that the
> first 80 clients are gone for good. Running "mech.rb 80" twice
> should (now) be only slightly better than running "mech.rb 160".

Paolo