POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : How far we have come : Re: How far we have come Server Time
7 Sep 2024 07:20:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How far we have come  
From: Warp
Date: 13 Jul 2008 17:36:57
Message: <487a7579@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   Is there *any* programming language designed after the early 80's which
> > actually cares about memory usage?

> Ada?

  1983.

> FORTH?

  1970's.

> Sure, languages like Java waste memory if you allocate each integer as a 
> separate object, so you make an array of integers to hold your bitmap, 
> and deal with the minor pain that architectural decision entails.

  What if you want objects with two or three integers inside them?
Or an integer and a floating point value?

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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