> > > There certainly is in nio buffer sources (and may be for encoding/decoding > in other areas, i am speculating as i have not looked), but for buffer > sources we can actually remove much if not all of Bits.java via use of the > internal Unsafe unaligned accessors. >
I made some notes when I was looking at it, I am attaching it if you want look at it. > getLongFrom[LE/BE](byte[] data, int firstByteIndex) > - for direct access > > getLongFrom[LE/BE](byte[] data, int firstByteOffset, int > longArrayIndex) - for loops/shifted array access > > > > etc. > > I was proposing just the latter, and just for VarHandles :-) it’s not just > for loops but also to bring alignment issues to the foreground. (It also it > fits in with something we have been pondering about for the unsafe > unaligned accessors on systems that don’t support unaligned access, such as > SPARC). > What do you mean by 'just for VarHandles'? Add it between VarHandle methods? Jaroslav
