[geeks] Upper Memory Limit - Java

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:39:40AM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> I think it comes down to kids these days (and by kids I mean recent CS  
> graduates) have literally no sense of scale - I think they spend all
> of their time working on little tiny "scratch my personal itch"
> software solutions and no class they take ever explains to them how to
> optimize software for literally millions and millions of iterations,
> communication over anything other than an idle 100 Mb/sec ethernet
> connection, or meeting the requirements of a varied user community
> (just their professor or TA). 

Better make that an idle gigabit ethernet connection these days.