Monthly Archives: January 2009

Synergetic Stupidity in Java

21st
Jan. × ’09

In the Java “class” file format specification, the length of the bytecode of any method is limited to 64KB. This arbitrary limitation is bad in itself, but see below what it does in conjunction with the other stupider Java ‘feature’.
In any normal language, a literal array constant (used for array initialization) is represented as a [...]

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