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0 pointsinvalidname2y ago0 comments

This is mentioned in the memory layout section in the post.

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anonymoushn2y ago· 2 in thread

I'm not sure what "a marker" is and how to make it take 0 bits of storage.

This is an upcoming behavior in Valhalla which isn't yet a part of Java so there's nothing final. Currently Valhalla has primitive and value object types that determine identity behavior.

anonymoushn2y ago

You mean non-nullable object types then. Which are faster and take up less space because that's how the hardware works :)

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