The DUB package manager

[Dmitry Olshansky]

24-Feb-2013 00:18, Nick Sabalausky пишет:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:22:54 +0400
> Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A trivial example is storage of pairs or tuples. That plus using
>> Java's containers makes memory footprint explode. At 100K+ hash-map I
>> notice quite high factor of waste. It's some double digits compared
>> to plain C arrays. I probably shouldn't care that much since servers
>> are having tons of 0RAM these days
>
> That "tons of RAM" isn't always true. My server is a lower-end VPS, so
> I have a mere 512 MB RAM: one-eighth as much as my *budget-range
> laptop*.

Yup, I'm having even half of that but at least it's KVM so I can hack on 
kernel drivers or at least try IPsec ;)

But here I was talking of real metal beasts sitting in racks and doing 
*solely* one-two processing task (no matter how stupid does it look).

> But it's been fine for me so far, especially since I don't run
> JVM on it. (I know I could use a dedicated physical server and easily
> get far more RAM, but I *love* VPS hosting - all the many benefits of an
> external web host (ex: not having to pay for my own T1 or better), but
> without the near-total lack of control or the impossibility of finding
> a company that knows what they're doing.)
>

Agreed.

> Anyway, I'd love more RAM and I will certainly get it when I need to,
> but every double-ing of my server's RAM will double my hosting costs -
> and doing that just for the sake of downgrading from a great language
> like D to a mediocre one like Java (even if it's J8+) wouldn't make
> very good business sense ;) Higher costs *plus* lower productivity and
> morale...yea, not exactly a great deal ;)


> My main point, of course, being: "Tons of RAM" isn't *always* the case
> for servers. Thank goodness for D :)
>

+1 Hence my discomfort with Java ;)

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Dmitry Olshansky