Re: An attack on a mint

"Karp, Alan H" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <B9B0C3C501993E4CBCF04411E76197C8184F5604@G3W0637.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Bill Frantz wrote:
>
> How much does this increase the memory footprint of the object
> code?

and

> (A wag might say that Java is so bloated you won't even notice.)

Wag, wag.

My test code for a class is about the same size as the code for the class for both Python and Java.  I've never seen a case where that factor of two was critical, but I haven't written code to be dynamically downloaded.  On the plus side, it's really convenient to see what's been tested when you think you've got a bug, and it's real easy to add a new test when you find one.

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