Again, you may still be wrong.  Many systems have different strategies for large blobs vs. small blobs (I know it&#x27;s many because I&#x27;ve written several myself) including chunking strategies, separate memory pools etc.<p>I&#x27;m taking this stand because I&#x27;ve had the exact issue we are arguing about: my large file handler had a leak in the memory pool for large blobs. Basically it was shared memory space for multiple processes so large objects could be passed out of band instead of using IO.