If I recall correctly, the bug only applied for arrays/lists of length greater than 2 to the more-than-astronomical. Not something that anyone ever encountered

If I recall correctly, the bug only applied for arrays/lists of length greater than 2 to the more-than-astronomical. Not something that anyone ever encountered in the wild, because current hardware doesn't have enough memory. Edit: The article linked in the other comment says the Java dev team didn't even bother to implement the "proper" fix, but merely adjusted how much space is allocated.