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Re:Allocation on the JVM: Down the rabbit hole by jcdavis on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:09PM (#12075770)
The header is only 12 bytes with compressedOops (which most people use), but the long is aligned on an 8 byte boundary so the advantage is wasted here.
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Re:Allocation on the JVM: Down the rabbit hole by alblue on Monday July 11, 2016 @11:27PM (#12076543)
And even if the long wasn't on an aligned boundary, the object itself is. So you either have padding at the start or end of the object.
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