From: cman@communities.com (Douglas Barnes)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 18:05:38 PDT
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Subject: Re: Java (was Netscape: the big win)
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>At 05:18 PM 7/20/95 -0800, Douglas Barnes wrote:
>>Java compiler (written in Java), compiling big program: 2.5 MB
>>HotJava browser (written in Java), after running some applets: 4.0 MB
>
>Believable for this sort of thing.
>
>>"Hello world" Java program (no GUI): 800K
>Yow!  Does this mean I'd have to download an 800K applet to my browser
>just to get it to say "Hello, World"?  Or is this a complete standalone
>program, much larger than a typical applet?

Uh, no, this is a standalone Java program (includes interpreter,
language library, etc.)

Applets are treated by a browser in the same way that a GIF is treated
(more or less); the browser may have to grab more memory to take in
a big one, but that memory can be reclaimed when the user moves on to
a new page.

Applets run as a thread within a multi-threaded browser, they don't
have their own processes, etc.