Java array with more than 4gb elements

Question

I have a big file, it\'s expected to be around 12 GB. I want to load it all into memory on a beefy 64-bit machine with 16 GB RAM, but I think Java does not support byte arra

Answer 1

If necessary, you can load the data into an array of arrays, which will give you a maximum of int.maxValue squared bytes, more than even the beefiest machine would hold well in memory.