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Regarding Java, It probably could be done with arrays and object reuse (arenas). But it's slightly less ergonomic. And the ecosystem isn't designed for it, so you'd have to implement your own memory-efficient parser.



Yep, but it wasn't a critical feature and we were in a rush, so the feature was killed instead.

> Depends on which Java implementation is used.

... if you have a choice. It was a port of AOSP, so we didn't. In any case it wasn't the jvm's fault, the device just had very little ram.


Sounds like a skill issue




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