The document discusses dealing with JVM limitations in Apache Cassandra. It identifies key pain points like garbage collection and platform-specific code. It then explores specific issues like fragmentation and offers solutions like arena allocation for memtables. The document also advocates for allowing more low-level access in Java to directly address issues like file mapping limitations, in ord
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