Re: Memory Profiler for Heap Analysis
Moritz Wissenbach wrote:
General XML editor. I have to look into it some more, but 20/1
Memory Usage/Document Size seems a little much. Maybe that's what
they mean by "Java is memory intensive"
Lew wrote:
No, it isn't. "They" are referring to the JVM footprint.
The overhead you're talking about is DOM overhead, not Java.
Moritz Wissenbach wrote:
Well, I meant the general style that comes with Java, for example using
the collection classes (HashMaps) which will add their share to memory
usage.
It would be different in what other language?
Moritz Wissenbach wrote:
I guess I'm still surprised that everything in the implementation seems
ok/necessary and still 1 MB blows up to 20 when loading a file.
That's the price of all those links between nodes, and all that metadata, and
whatnot. It's not the language, it's the algorithm. This is still not what
"they" mean by "Java needs a lot of memory." This is what "they" mean by "DOM
needs a lot of memory."
There's no question that the memory cost is high. If that's a problem,
consider SAX or StAX parsing instead - it's much more PARSimonious. Cover
what you need in one pass and it's also extremely fast.
--
Lew
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