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Memory Consumption: WildFly Full ThinWAR vs. Quarkus SkimmedJAR 📎

Comparing the memory consumption of WildFly 18.0.1.Final (Java EE Full & Web Distribution) and Quarkus by deploying identical microprofile application to both runtimes:

The ThinWAR project was created with Jakarta EE Essentials Archetype, the 6kB ThinWAR was built and deployed with: wad.sh in 3.1s.

The Quarkus Runner 20.3kB "SkimmedJAR" was built in 4.3s from scratch. The file size of the native executable was 32 MB, the built took 53.7s.