As mentioned down in this thread, the key-val would be bytes-bytes or string-bytes. While this is more expensive in terms of CPU, it has the advantage that the

As mentioned down in this thread, the key-val would be bytes-bytes or string-bytes. While this is more expensive in terms of CPU, it has the advantage that the size of elements in the cache are carefully understood and do not need the cost of GC sweeps. When de-serialized, in-memory structs take up more memory on heap and it gets hard to compute that -- we've tried that in vain in the past. Having said that, there's still a general need to store pointers as values and that's something we'll look at once this byte-based implementation is ready.