I ran the following code: 
//=======================================================
import java.io.*;
class dup
{
        public static void main(String args[])
        {
                dupme ob = new dupme(0);
        }// end main()
}// end class dup

class dupme
{
        public dupme(int me)
        {
                System.out.println("I am '" + me + "'!");
                dupme ob = new dupme(me + 1);
        }// end interface dumpe(int me)
}// end class dupme()
//=======================================================

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After 200,000 iterations and before 300,000 iterations, it simply dies. Spits out over 30kb of errors into a log file. Why does this happen? The equivallent code in perl... 
#=======================================================
package main;
my $ob = dupme->new(0);

package dupme;

sub new
{
        my $s = {};
        bless $s;  
        print "I am '$_[1]'!\n";
        my $ob = $s->new($_[1]+1);
        return $s;
}# end sub new 
#=======================================================

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...ran faster (on my machine) and did not exit until 853865 iterations. I realize this is comparing apples to horses, but what does this tell me? Considering the way objects are started, exist and are destroyed in each VM is quite different, I realize this is the result of perhaps thousands of differences and 2 completely different development perspectives. On windows98, AMD500, 296Mb RAM, the java one ran only to just over 4000 iterations, while the perl version went beyond 2,000,000 iterations! I wonder why, if Java is supposed to have such slick garbage collection, does it have _any_ kind of problem?

In reply to Memory Use/Garbage Collection: Java vs Perl by c0d3cr33p

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