Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Why use C++? Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:41:05 +1200 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <9aocs3FdeuU6@mid.individual.net> References: <2c692ece-a34b-470c-b70e-caa346792fb1@c19g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <9ao5lkFdeuU4@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net +C44tPrd9z/QwLoiaaq2AgNiw2soZuXoeZmqVyz86xWFQ5GfBS Cancel-Lock: sha1:KXBAB78L8uRaTmdrOENomZ6McWY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:8800 On 08/14/11 10:36 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: > Ian Collins writes: >> How can a compiled binary require more memory than a script + its >> interpretor? > > by scaling: > > 100 different compiled executables = 100 different compiled executables, > > 100 different scripts = 100 different scripts + 1 interpreter. What if those 100 scripts are running concurrently? -- Ian Collins