Re: Java (was Netscape: the big win)

Good. Any guesses how big a basic "Hello, World" applet would be? Maybe 10K?

The "Hello World" program I mentioned before is 325 bytes after compilation. The 800K memory usage was a measurement of the interpreter and language libraries being sucked into memory, assuming no other activity on the machine. I have a much larger program that does various kinds of reformatting and munging of Java programs that take up a whopping 8K compiled, its source file is 13K. The bytecode compiled programs seem to be much more compact than their source code versions.