Re: Imagine if Prevayler could transparently use disk...

Looks possible via bytecode instrumentation even after the jvm has started:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/instrument/package-summary.html#package_description
http://www.csg.is.titech.ac.jp/~chiba/javassist/

> ...so you could seamlessly create and use terabyte+ sized Java objects with it!
>
> Stupid? Crazy? Pointless? Impossible? Maybe one day? Or already possible?
>
> Maybe by transparently allowing deserialization/serialization of
> fields to/from memory, based on which ones are most/least used. Or
> maybe there's an even simpler way.
>
> I'm guessing it'd still be way more performant than databases. I like
> the Prevayler "way" of doing things, so I wouldn't want the user code
> to change in any way, so it'd still be "Prevayler".
>

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