It is not a single object; I am writing into a coded output stream
file which could grow to much larger than 2GB (it's more like 100GB).
I also have to read from this file.

Is there a performance hit in the above-mentioned scenario?

Nader


On 6/3/2010 15:03 Evan Jones writes:
> On Jun 3, 2010, at 14:18 , Nader Salehi wrote:
> > I was told that coded streams have issues when they are larger than
> > 2GB.  Is it true, and, if so, what are the issues?
> 
> If you have a single object that is 2GB in size, there are 32-bit  
> integers that will overflow. However, provided that you  
> call .resetSizeCounter() occasionally, I think it should work just  
> fine. I'm certainly using a single Java CodedInputStream per long  
> lived connection without any trouble. Unclear if I've sent > 2GB of  
> data over a single connection though.
> 
> Evan
> 
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