I believe JVMs were the first to use pointer-compression. A good summary is at https://stackoverflow.com/a/25120926/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/25120926/ Als

I believe JVMs were the first to use pointer-compression. A good summary is at https://stackoverflow.com/a/25120926/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/25120926/ Also worth reading: https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/02/35gb-heap-less-32gb-java-jvm-memory-oddities/ https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/02/35gb-heap-less-32gb-j...