Given the relative size of the function and typical memory, I suspect that the issue the author ran into was actually the JVM's 64KB limit on the bytecode size

Given the relative size of the function and typical memory, I suspect that the issue the author ran into was actually the JVM's 64KB limit on the bytecode size of a compiled function. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17422480/maximum-size-of-a-method-in-java-7-and-8 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17422480/maximum-size-of...