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Overview I was recently asked about the benefits and wisdom of using off heap memory in Java. The answers may be of interest to others facing the same choices. Off heap memory is nothing special. The thread stacks, application code, NIO buffers are all off heap.  In fact in C and C++, you only have unmanaged memory […]