[Biojava-dev] Build system changes

[Len Trigg]

Thomas Down wrote:
> One worry, though, is that if you watch memory usage during
> an 'ant runtests', it creeps up pretty rapidly even when
> running tests which only use a few small objects.  I'm wondering
> how much of the problem is actually data, and how much is due
> to keeping lots of classes in memory.  BioJava is a pretty big

I suppose that could account for a lot. How much memory does it take? As 
a data point, our main src module here has about 10% more classes than 
biojava, and runs around 4000 tests. We give the JVM 200MB when running 
the tests. I think we had problems with 128MB. Our stuff can be very 
memory intensive while running (text categorization, lots of documents 
and classifiers etc), so I would say has a higher memory requirement 
than biojava.


Cheers,
Len.