: In July 2024, Aleksey Shipilev, a prominent JVM performance engineer, announced his resignation as the maintainer of the 32-bit x86 port for Java.
Due to (references to objects), a 64-bit JVM uses 8-byte pointers instead of 4-byte pointers. This means a typical Java object graph can be 10-30% larger in a 64-bit VM. 32-bit java