warrenm was asking whether Java's (and implicitly: the JVMs) concept of references could be used. I'm glad that you agree with me that they cannot. Representin

warrenm was asking whether Java's (and implicitly: the JVMs) concept of references could be used. I'm glad that you agree with me that they cannot. Representing the memory of a compiled C program with a giant byte array would of course work, but also defeat the purpose of running on the JVM in the first place. You lose all the advantages that running on the JVM might have given you, and are slower than a natively compiled program.