When will java change to 64bit addressing and how can we get there faster?

Posted by Ido Tamir on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Ido Tamir
Published on 2012-06-07T09:50:28Z Indexed on 2012/06/07 10:47 UTC
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Having to work with large files now, I would like to know when the java libraries will start switching to long for indexing in their methods.

From Inputstreams read(byte[] b, int off, int len) - funnily there is long skip(long) also - to MappedByteBuffer to the basic indexing of arrays and lists, everything is adressed as int.

Is there an official plan for enhancment of the libraries?

Do initiatives exist to pressure oracle into enhancing the libraries, if there is no official plan yet?

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