Java: optimize BinaryData#compareBytes() to use sun.misc.Unsafe when available
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Key: AVRO-939
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-939
Project: Avro
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: java
Reporter: Doug Cutting
Google's Guava libraries include an optimized implementation of lexicographic
byte comparison based on sun.misc.Unsafe that's ~4x faster than the normal Java
implementation.
http://hiroshiyamauchi.blogspot.com/2010/08/fast-unsigned-byte-lexicographical.html
http://www.google.com/codesearch#UKMs0lhE9bg/trunk/src/com/google/common/primitives/UnsignedBytes.java&l=276
We might similarly optimize BinaryData#compareBytes().
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