Objects can no longer be migrated or evacuated into large object space

src/spaces.h

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   }
 
   // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 
   // Page size in bytes.  This must be a multiple of the OS page size.
   static const int kPageSize = 1 << kPageSizeBits;
 
   // Object area size in bytes.
   static const int kNonCodeObjectAreaSize = kPageSize - kObjectStartOffset;
 
-  // Maximum object size that fits in a page.
+  // Maximum object size that fits in a page. Objects larger than that size
+  // are allocated in large object space and are never moved in memory. This
+  // also applies to new space allocation, since objects are never migrated
+  // from new space to large object space.
   static const int kMaxNonCodeHeapObjectSize = kNonCodeObjectAreaSize;
 
   // Page size mask.
   static const intptr_t kPageAlignmentMask = (1 << kPageSizeBits) - 1;
 
   inline void ClearGCFields();
 
   static inline Page* Initialize(Heap* heap,
                                  MemoryChunk* chunk,
                                  Executability executable,
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   }
   // Must be small, since an iteration is used for lookup.
   static const int kMaxComments = 64;
 };
 #endif
 
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal
 
 #endif  // V8_SPACES_H_