There is no downside to keeping the overall memory arena size down: better cache locality, fewer stop the world collections. Node programmers have been asking for this behavior for years.
The business model that the SageMath guy failed to consider was the "Money at the End of the Rainbow" model used by Spring, JBoss and MySQL. His comment about licensing was also interesting: "At a bare minimum, I think…
There is no downside to keeping the overall memory arena size down: better cache locality, fewer stop the world collections. Node programmers have been asking for this behavior for years.
The business model that the SageMath guy failed to consider was the "Money at the End of the Rainbow" model used by Spring, JBoss and MySQL. His comment about licensing was also interesting: "At a bare minimum, I think…