bsd daemon chick wallpaper??

[Pete Ehlke]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:59:38PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> (It's amazing how quickly a sloppily written perl script can eat up 384M
> of RAM, 700M of swap and fall over dead!  Boy, these newer computers are
> fast!)
> 
What's even more amazing is how quickly even the most carefully, tightly
crafted java script (yes, script. java is *interpreted*, dammit) can eat
up 384 Mb of RAM.

"An 11 Mb RSS and 10 second startup time just to say 'Hello world'.
That's not too bad, really, is it?"