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OpenJDK proposal to reduce the Java object header by half or more would lower memory and CPU usage on all Java workloads. Java could get a smaller object header, thus improving memory usage, under a ...

Most Java developers who come from a C/C++ background have probably at one time wished for a Java equivalent of sizeof(). Although Java lacks a true sizeof() equivalent, the Instrumentation interface ...