Application memory use (original) (raw)

Henri Gomez henri.gomez at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 14:09:06 PDT 2012

I'm studing on bringing back 32/64 (universal) OpenJDK 7 fo

If I'm understanding correctly this would mean by default compressed would be used for both and you should see more or less the same memory footprint.

With Compressed Pointers a 64 bits JVM will consume less memory but it will still be higher than a 32 bits JVM for same usage.

I'll check when a 32/64 bit openjdk jvm build is available that should match on this option.

I built a TestDrive OpenJDK 7 universal (32/64) :

http://openjdk-osx-build.googlecode.com/files/OpenJDK-OSX-1.7-x64-u4-jdk-jdk7u4-b21-20120423.dmg

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