Github user sachouche commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1060#discussion_r161036145
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exec/memory/base/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/util/MemoryUtils.java ---
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+package org.apache.drill.exec.util;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.nio.ByteOrder;
+
+import sun.misc.Unsafe;
+
+/** Exposes advanced Memory Access APIs for Little-Endian / Unaligned
platforms */
+@SuppressWarnings("restriction")
+public final class MemoryUtils {
+
+ // Ensure this is a little-endian hardware */
+ static {
+ if (ByteOrder.nativeOrder() != ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN) {
+ throw new IllegalStateException("Drill only runs on LittleEndian
systems.");
+ }
+ }
+
+ /** Java's unsafe object */
+ private static Unsafe UNSAFE;
+
+ static {
+ try {
+ Field theUnsafe = Unsafe.class.getDeclaredField("theUnsafe");
+ theUnsafe.setAccessible(true);
+ UNSAFE = (Unsafe) theUnsafe.get(null);
+ }
+ catch (Exception e) {
+ throw new RuntimeException(e);
+ }
+ }
+
+ /** Byte arrays offset */
+ private static final long BYTE_ARRAY_OFFSET =
UNSAFE.arrayBaseOffset(byte[].class);
+
+ /** Number of bytes in a long */
+ public static final int LONG_NUM_BYTES = 8;
+ /** Number of bytes in an int */
+ public static final int INT_NUM_BYTES = 4;
+ /** Number of bytes in a short */
+ public static final int SHORT_NUM_BYTES = 2;
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// APIs
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ /**
+ * @param data source byte array
+ * @param index index within the byte array
+ * @return short value starting at data+index
+ */
+ public static short getShort(byte[] data, int index) {
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Please refer to my reply to Parth. I personally think the memory package
should be our main abstraction (of course along with guidelines). Putting all
memory access APIs within the DrillBuf class will only clutter that class.. I
rather have a centralized memory utility class for advanced processing which do
not involve a DrillBuf.
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