There are times when you need to spare hardware resources (either
to keep using legacy hardware, to play the embedded card, or just
to be efficient because a large footprint is trashing CPU caches,
leading to unacceptable levels of idle-states).
In this spirit, some efforts have been made to make 'light' ports
of Java or Mono (C# for Linux), and they range in the 80-50 MB
(instead of the 100-200 MB).
Add a Web server (Apache, IIS, etc.) to the scripting engine and
you can happily dive into the GB (IIS + .Net) only to load the
tool in memory.
Anybody with more modest tools in the specs area?
