[GitHub] [incubator-datasketches-memory] leerho commented on issue #121: Support newer Java version than 8

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leerho commented on issue #121:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-datasketches-memory/issues/121#issuecomment-730685251


   This does indeed look promising.  But as of October, 2020, the Foreign Memory Access API is still incubating in Java 14 and 15.  I have been interested in this Panama project for several years now.  It has been really slow in coming into being.  And, it appears, we may have to wait longer still.  
   
   It gives me hope that Java is finally trying to address the need to manage structured off-heap memory like the _c struct_, but alas, with 10X the verbosity!  What is still missing is the power of the _c union_,  which is used under the covers by the java compiler, but apparently still not available to java users.


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