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Show HN: Off-heap collections with speed comparable to Java Collections (mapdb.org)
4 points by qwerta on Aug 6, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


This looks awesome to me. My application has GB of read-only objects that I cache in virtual memory. Unfortunately, Java does not have a way to exclude certain objects from garbage collection, so large numbers of read-only long-lived objects get processed for GC anyway and slow down the application.

I recall that Smalltalk back in the day had a save-to-perm feature in which objects could get moved to a section of VM that was not subject to GC. I wish Java had that.




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