Re: Class with only methods - less memory?

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:57:49 GMT
Message-ID:
<hpoHg.646$xQ1.532@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>
redefined.horizons@gmail.com wrote:

I am working on a program that creates hundreds, if not thousands, of
objects in memory. This often causes the program to run out of memory
and shut down.

I am looking for a solution to this. I am curious how much memory is
required from objects that belong to a class that has only method
definitions, and no member variables or other objects included in its
definition.

I want to know if I can solve my memory problem by creating an object
that accesses its "data" or member variables off of the hard disk
instead of from RAM. I know this will impose a serious speed or
performance penatly. However, if this will work I can take some steps
to get around the speed problem.

Will I reduce RAM usage by creating hundreds or thousands of objects
from a class that only contains method definitions?

Thanks for the help.

Scott Huey


You are probably already aware of this, but just in case... JVMs often
have a command line parameter to tell them to use more heap space. For
example, -Xmxn for Sun's JVMs.

Patricia

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