I had a JVM stack trace today that was 2.2MB in size. I mean, thank goodness the JVM doesn’t do tail-call elimination! Think about how confusing that would be if stack calls were elided!
ETA: It was 28,092 lines, but:
% tr ' ' '\n' < java-barf | sort -u |wc -l
yields only 405 unique ‘words’. That’s … impressive? I guess?
On second look now, it falls apart. ☹️The question is “How does that stack up in 2011 terms?” Well, JPEGs were bigger than program binaries back in 1992 too, as would have been a text file containing War & Peace…
The one bullseye is the /bin/touch comparison… that’s savage.
I had a JVM stack trace today that was 2.2MB in size. I mean, thank goodness the JVM doesn’t do tail-call elimination! Think about how confusing that would be if stack calls were elided!
ETA: It was 28,092 lines, but:
yields only 405 unique ‘words’. That’s … impressive? I guess?
Brutal and scathing.
I chuckled when I first read it years ago.
On second look now, it falls apart. ☹️The question is “How does that stack up in 2011 terms?” Well, JPEGs were bigger than program binaries back in 1992 too, as would have been a text file containing War & Peace…
The one bullseye is the
/bin/touchcomparison… that’s savage.