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seanmcdirmidtoday at 2:42 AM1 replyview on HN

Pretty hard to do arena allocation in Java without JVM primitive support.


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jeberletoday at 4:48 AM

Not sure what you mean by "primitive support". Java 22 added FFM (Foreign Function & Memory). It works w/ both on-heap & off-heap memory. It has an Arena interface.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/454

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api/java.base...

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