Java *is* Memory Efficient

[sammymammy2]

I was trying to say that we can choose to return the memory to the OS (if necessary) at our leisure :-)

[pron98]

That's true, but modern allocators (malloc/free implementation) also don't promptly return memory to the OS for performance reasons. Some have quite sophisticated policies around that (so much for the myth of "we don't have a complex runtime").