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There’s been a lot of fuss made lately over memory inspection and profiling tools for Ruby implementations. And it’s not without reason; inspecting a Ruby application’s memory profile, much less ...

ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management problems (such as buffer overruns, de-referencing invalid pointers, and memory ...

Erm. Well. There are a lot of possible answers to that. Some points:<BR><BR>1. Java is generally compiled to bytecode, which is then interpreted at run-time. (There are exceptions, and some ...