lun, 18 Jan 2010, David Mitchell skribis:
> Here is an example of a program that fails due to lack of memory on 32 bit 
> systems but will run to completion on 64 bit systems.  It will run in a 
> reasonable length of time with 8 gigabytes of memory.  With less than 4 
> gigabytes of memory, it takes much longer.
> 
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JDB/Netflix

I think the max file size under J32 is 2G because the file offset is
signed.

On a cursory glance, there is no garbage collection so that it cannot
reuse space of deleted record.

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