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		pbourke on Feb 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and ... > incredibly heavyweight runtime The apps may be heavyweight, but the runtime was designed to run on set-top boxes 25 years ago.

jaytaylor on Feb 5, 2021 [–]

The JVM is definitely memory hungry (excluding cherry-picked examples such as 'set top deployments' or the Java Ring from the 90s), moreso than any other language runtime referenced in this discussion.

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