When will java change to 64bit addressing and how can we get there faster?
- by Ido Tamir
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…