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What is Off-heap memory?

Definition 10.2 Low-Latency Software · Chapter 10 — Managed and Functional Languages on the Desk

Off-heap memory is memory a managed program uses outside its collected heap (direct byte buffers, memory-mapped files, native arrays), laid out by the program and invisible to the collector: it is never scanned, moved or freed by it.

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