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- Subject: Re: Lua in the Kindle
- From: Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:30:06 +0000
On 20 January 2012 15:02, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote:
> Matthew Wild wrote:
> [...]
>> I don't have titlebars, and I don't know what you mean about not
>> drawing borders properly, but I don't have any (notable?) memory leaks
>> (I often don't reboot for weeks at a time).
>
> The Kindle 3 firmware, which was all in Java, was very brittle under the
> hood --- for example, it ran all applications in the same VM, which
> meant that static variables were never garbage collected. Ever.
>
Understood. I was talking about Awesome specifically though, in
response to HyperHacker's complaints.
You could have ended your sentence with "all in Java" also :)
Regards,
Matthew
