Thanks, Paul! Talking with you about it helped me formulate my thoughts better.
> On May 6, 2020, at 9:02 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi John, > > Thanks. For the benefit of others, John and I had a long chat about this and > Joe’s CSR comments. > > I have a better appreciation of your approach to the design and some of the > more subjective aspects to guide developers to API points, and to make code > more readable (that’s creative API design :-) ). > > I agree with your assessment on size, lane count, and > Mask/Shuffle.vectorSpecies. > > Re: VectorSpecies.fromByteArray, I now see the method Vector.reinterpretShape > appeals to VectorSpecies.fromByteArray for its specification. Removal would > result in a less elegant specification of the behavior (making harder to > understand). In that sense I think it’s worth its weight. However, I would > suggest keeping in sync with a proposed change (on panama-dev) to the related > load/store byte[]/ByteBuffer methods, requiring they all accept a ByteOrder. > I think this does bring up the wider point you raised about where factory > methods reside, and I agree about waiting for specialized generics, as that > might allow us to make better moves. > > Paul.
