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Re:Eclipse OpenJ9 – Open-source JVM by mike_hearn on Saturday September 16, 2017 @05:55PM (#15266955)
It's not impossible. HotSpot/OpenJDK already has one. It's a native method/compiler intrinsic rather than a keyword but amounts to the same thing:

http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/sun/misc/Unsafe.html#freeMemo...

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Re:Eclipse OpenJ9 – Open-source JVM by mstoodle on Saturday September 16, 2017 @06:10PM (#15267033)
That frees a block of native memory, not an arbitrary Java object...
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