"Big" mapping support in future versions of Java?

[Francis Galiegue]

Hello,

One limit of Java, even in 8, is the inability to map files over 2 GB
in one go; because of the definition of ByteBuffer, indices are
limited to ints; even though arguments to FileChannel.map() are longs.

Is there a plan to create a new set of classes in the future which
would remove this limitation?

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