Footprint designates the size occupied by your application in computer RAM memory. Footprint can have different meaning when speaking about memory consumption. In my experience, memory footprint often doesn’t include memory allocated on the heap (dynamic memory), or resource loaded from disc etc. This is because dynamic allocations are non constant and may vary depending … Read more
When an exception occurs there will be time overhead which depends on how you implement your exception handling. But, being anecdotal, the severity of an event that should cause an exception will take just as much time to handle using any other method. Why not use the highly supported language based method of dealing with … Read more
Mindprod points out that this is not a straightforward question to answer: A JVM is free to store data any way it pleases internally, big or little endian, with any amount of padding or overhead, though primitives must behave as if they had the official sizes. For example, the JVM or native compiler might decide … Read more