From: Brian McCallister <mccallister@...>
Date: 2003-07-29T04:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Fishing for ideas: Ruby-talk for Java coders


On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 02:44 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> I should know.  I monitor processes on a 4-cpu E450 with 4gb of RAM, 
> and
> about 90% of it is being used by Java+Weblogic.  While I may be picking
> a bad example with Weblogic, the point is that if you use Java, you're
> probably going to start using 3rd party Java apps, and those are
> probably going to be much more piggish.

Hmm, while I haven't tried it... are you telling me that Ruby can do 
everything that an EJB Container can do in less memory, with fewer cpu 
cycles? I have a *really* hard time believing that. Less code, less 
time to implement, less cost to maintain (maybe) I have no trouble 
believing, but faster and lower footprint I won't believe until I see 
it.

While I think EJB's are bloated monstrosities, they do provide a lot of 
services easily for the developer. Be careful of comparing types of 
applications typically done in a language (and those applications' 
system requirements) when you want to compare the system requirements 
of the languages themselves.

-Brian