Also, i believe that 'classes' aren't fixed size, because they contain the class's vtable [1]. As such, you couldn't keep them in an indexable array anyway. [1

Also, i believe that 'classes' aren't fixed size, because they contain the class's vtable [1]. As such, you couldn't keep them in an indexable array anyway. [1] in HotSpot they are instances of InstanceKlass: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share/oops/instanceKlass.hpp#L47 https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share...