Yet another reason to never touch that piece of shit language ever again:
CppCon leadership and the C++ Foundation board have worked in secret to protect a person convicted of rape and possession of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery. They have refused any transparency into a process where they have decided to allow this person full access to CppCon as an attendee, speaker and trainer. This person is well-known and trusted in the C++ community.
For some reason a lot of material around this avoids naming the person. He is Arthur O’Dwyer. Here is an article about his arrest and conviction: https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/yonkers/news/sex-offender-convicted-of-raping-drugged-victim-reports-move-into-yonkers/773166/
Sounds like the Java version wasn’t written with aggressive GC reference culling in mind – it will never be as memory-efficient as a purpose-built C/C++/Rust program, but 1.5 GB sounds egregious.