On 24 Jan 2005, at 09:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BioJava uses (or at least can use) the PackedSymbolList for large sequences. It uses an array of longs to represent the packed bits.
There may be some advantage to using a ByteBuffer, hard to know.
The main reason I was thinking for using MappedByteBuffer is that if you're accessing a large amount of sequence it won't necessarily all get loaded into memory at once. This could, for example, make random access to a multi-gigabase sequence database bearable on a basic desktop computer. Just a thought, not sure how much demand there is for this.
Thomas.
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