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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by n3rd on Thursday October 10, 2013 @09:26PM (#6531012)
IBM's Java 7 and 8 beta's already have this. It's called Packed Objects and it lets you have have high density data with no pointer chasing along with a much cleaner interface to off-heap languages like C/C++/C# and even languages like Fortran/COBOL etc.

http://www.slideshare.net/mmitran/ibm-java-packed-objects-mm... and http://www.slideshare.net/ZeroTurnaround/ryan-sciampaconerun...

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