From: cman@communities.com (Douglas Barnes)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 19:57:03 PDT
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Subject: Re: Java (was Netscape: the big win)
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>Good.  Any guesses how big a basic "Hello, World" applet would be?
>Maybe 10K?

The "Hello World" program I mentioned before is 325 bytes after
compilation. The 800K memory usage was a measurement of the
interpreter and language libraries being sucked into memory, assuming
no other activity on the machine.

I have a much larger program that does various kinds of reformatting
and munging of Java programs that take up a whopping 8K compiled, its
source file is 13K.

The bytecode compiled programs seem to be much more compact than their
source code versions.