<i>If the program is written in C++ instead, what&#x27;d happen is</i><p>I think it&#x27;s worth pointing out that, if my experience with c++ vs c# translates at all to c++ vs Java, if the program was written in C++ instead it&#x27;s memory footprint would have been somewhere between 1&#x2F;10 and 1&#x2F;4 of the Java version.