Nice to hear back from you! Yes, I was thinking about creating a new memory
storage implementation using Unsafe (and I did it, recently) and also, as
DirectMemory relies heavily on serialization (and supports many of them,
protostuff, protobuf, msgpack and of course standard serialization), about
creating a simple embedded serializer leveraging the same techniques you
used (Unsafe and bytecode generation).
The idea with embedding is avoiding to serialize in a byte array and then
moving the byte array to off-heap memory (via Unsafe or ByteBuffers), and
serializing directly into a "managed" off-heap buffer, thus further
optimizing heap utilization (less GC).
What do you think about it? Does it make any sense to you?
Ciao,
R
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Noctarius <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Raffaele found out about a project of mine (Lightning) a few weeks
> ago. Lightning is a heavy Unsafe and Bytecode generation using
> Serializer implementation. He told me that he was interested in
> adding something similar to DirectMemory and I would be glad to help
> out in this.
>
> Another project I started a few days ago, since it was needed for
> work is DirectRingCache. The name not really meets to actual
> implementation since it's not yet a ring buffer using cache. I used
> this for a pre-serialization simple bytestream cache with
> self-growing buffers. It could be nice to have DirectMemory having
> raw "buffers" to write to or to read from.
>
> Here are the links from the projects:
> https://github.com/noctarius/Lightning
> https://github.com/noctarius/direct-ring-cache
>
> It would be nice to help out since I really like the idea of
> DirectMemory and since direct-ring-cache is some kind of reinventing
> the wheel.
>
> Cheers
> Noctarius (Chris)
>
