Comment 3 for bug 889084

I can assure you well coded Java can beat C++. I emphasize the well coded.

The days of Java being slower every time are gone. You can't just expect to
put some code together and get high performance, if you want that stick to
VB.

And yes, this includes backend servers at big corporations, handling quite
a large amount of connections simultaneously (with db integration, disk
access and so on).

Now Mono is another story :)

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Adam Porter <email address hidden>wrote:

> Not that it matters, but the use of Java ensures that I (and many
> others, I'm sure) will never use this software. Java is basically
> unsuitable for desktop software. It's incredibly slow and bloated. I
> can't afford to give hundreds of megs of RAM to an app for syncing files
> on all of my systems. And the startup time for the VM is crazy.
> Dropbox is not Free Software but it's mostly efficient and lightweight.
>
> Everyone wants a Free Software Dropbox clone, but it seems like the most
> promising projects are all using things like Mono and Java. I don't get
> it. I wish someone talented and practical like Linus would just sit
> down and write one in C (or even Python) and be done with it.
>
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> Title:
> Java memory usage
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> Status in Syncany:
> Confirmed
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> Bug description:
> Just running deamon, java process use lot of memory (near to 1Go!)
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