I heard many libraries such as JXTA and PjSIP have smaller footprints. Is this pointing to small resource consumption or something else?

Can anyone point to serious comparison of Python runtime footprint versus Java? Thanks, Avraham

Is the memory space consumed by one object with 100 attributes the same as that of 100 objects, with one attribute each? How much memory is allocated for an object? How much additional space is us...

I have implemented a simple-minded loader for haskell plugins to my Main.hs module. The only function I use right now is load from this site Looking at my compiled application size shows me an ove...

I'm quite impressed by what Lift 2.0 brings to the table with Actors and StatefulSnippets, etc, but I'm a little worried about the memory overhead of these things. My question is twofold: How doe...

I'm using Qt for an embedded Linux app and want to make it as small as possible. At the moment If I make a statically compiled executable it will be 3.9Mb, pretty much only using the GUI parts I ne...

As I can see, beta2 of .Net Framework 4.0 installation program is only 55MB, and it was 200+MB for .Net 3.5, What's happening?

Java - or at least Sun's Hotspot JVM - has long had a reputation for having a very large memory footprint. What exactly is it about the JVM that gives it this reputation? I'd be interested in a det...

This issue is important especially for embedded development. Exception handling adds some footprint to generated binary output. On the other hand, without exceptions the errors need to be handled s...

I have a C++ template class that gets instantiated with 3 different type parameters. There's a method that the class needs to have for only one of those types and that isn't ever called with the tw...