Around 6 years ago I was experimenting and pushing the practical boundaries of what the JVM could handle with regards to heap size. We had Java 8 at the time, and allocating hundreds of GB of heap space was risky. Lots of time and effort was spend in many IT teams around the world just… Continue reading No need for off-heap
Tag: Off-heap
Only the Good Die Young (or Move Off-heap?)
Having some spare time over the Easter weekend I thought I’d spend a little time trying out a few things, including: Java 8 Direct memory allocation with sun.misc.Unsafe So I made a hash-map implementation that stores map entries on memory allocated outside the typical JVM heap: BinaryOffheapHashMap First of all: The GC process in Java is a lifesaver, allowing… Continue reading Only the Good Die Young (or Move Off-heap?)