[OT] Why mobile web apps are slow

[bearophile]

thedeemon:

> HotSpot and, I suppose, other mature JVMs provide generational 
> GCs, so you won't get 5 seconds delay after each 8 MB of 
> allocated data there.

They need a certain amount of seconds for each GB of heap memory 
(assuming an average amount of pointers in that GB of data 
structures. Java data structures contain many pointers, unlike C# 
and D). The G1 garbage collector helps spread this computation.

Bye,
bearophile