Github user ben-manes commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/940 Caffeine doesn't allocate on read, so that would make sense. I saw a [25x boost](https://github.com/google/guava/issues/2063#issuecomment-107169736) (compared to [current](https://github.com/google/guava/issues/2063#issue-82444927)) when porting the buffers to Guava.
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