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Re:Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006) by Retric on Saturday July 23, 2016 @06:34AM (#12149068)
Java uses shorts in some JavaCard implementations. So, it's clearly just a legacy limitation which will eventually be removed.

As to C++ 2+ billion byte arrays are not uncommon. It's just a few gigs of ram for int[] arrays.

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