Memory limitations in a 64-bit .Net application?

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There’s a 2 GiB limitation on all objects in .NET, you are never allowed to create a single object that exceeds 2 GiB. If you need a bigger object you need to make sure that the objects is built from parts smaller than 2 GiB, so you cannot have an array of continuous bits larger than 2 GiB or a single string longer larger than 512 MiB, I’m not entirely sure about the string but I’ve done some testing on the issue and was getting OutOfMemoryExceptions when I tried to allocate strings bigger than 512 MiB.

These limits though are subject to heap fragmentation and even if the GC does try to compact the heap, large objects (which is somewhat of an arbitrary cross over around 80K) end up on the large object heap which is a heap that isn’t compacted. Strictly speaking, and somewhat of a side note, if you can maintain short lived allocations below this threshold it would be better for your overall GC memory management and performance.

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