On Feb 27, 2014, at 3:52 PM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/26/2014 03:42 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote: > >> A common reason why Unsafe is used is to more efficiently compare two >> unsigned byte arrays, viewing those byte arrays as long arrays. > > Why not simply provide ByteBuffer.forArray(byte[]) ? Then we'd have all the > ByteBuffer intrinsics for put() and get() operations. >
Good point, even if it does require the creation of two ByteBuffer instances. An implementation of Arrays.compare could do that if things were suitably intrinsified, which i am not sure is the case as of today. I will do some measurements and report back. Paul.
