On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 19:11:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Many systems, in order to deal with this, map out the first 64K, not just the first page. Java, to deal with this, makes objects larger than 64K illegal.
If linux and BSD style system aren't major, then that is true (mapped memory is variable on both).
Java do not limit the size of object to 64k, but the number of methods (or member, I don't have the spec on my eyes now). No size limit. Java rely on runtime checks for null.
