Re: JDK 9 proposal: allocating ByteBuffers on heterogeneous memory

Hi Paul, I have to apologize. Due to an email error on my part, I just now saw your and Mark's responses (from 4/8/16). > On Apr 8, 2016, at 1:41 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > >> On 8 Apr 2016, at 00:03, Dohrmann, Steve <stev

Re: JDK 9 proposal: allocating ByteBuffers on heterogeneous memory

Hi Paul, I have to apologize. Due to an email error on my part, I just now saw your and Mark's responses (from 4/8/16). > On Apr 8, 2016, at 1:41 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > >> On 8 Apr 2016, at 00:03, Dohrmann, Steve <stev

Re: JDK 9 proposal: allocating ByteBuffers on heterogeneous memory

with its ByteBuffer factory method. Thanks, Steve On Apr 7, 2016, at 3:03 PM, Dohrmann, Steve <steve.dohrm...@intel.com<mailto:steve.dohrm...@intel.com>> wrote: Hi Paul, We would like to have an an API for Intel's 3D XPoint memory sooner than the JDK 10 timeframe and proposed this

Re: JDK 9 proposal: allocating ByteBuffers on heterogeneous memory

ase address to the start of that allocated region? Thanks, Paul. [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/varhandles/specdiff/java/lang/invoke/MethodHandles-report.html#method:byteBufferViewVarHandle(java.lang.Class, boolean) On 6 Apr 2016, at 03:49, Dohrmann, Steve <steve.doh

JDK 9 proposal: allocating ByteBuffers on heterogeneous memory

Re: JDK-8153111 Hi, Below are responses to some of the points brought up in the discussion as well as is a little expansion of the reasoning that went into the proposed API. One motivation we saw for doing anything beyond a concrete ByteBuffer

Re: JDK 9 proposal: allocating ByteBuffers on heterogeneous memory

Hi everyone, The questions and suggestions regarding this proposal (JDK-8153111) are interesting and useful. We are still digesting the feedback; next week we'll do our best to respond to items raised and add to the discussion. I hope this

JDK 9 proposal: allocating ByteBuffers on heterogeneous memory

This is a JDK 9 proposal to support allocation of direct java.nio.ByteBuffer instances backed by memory other than off-heap RAM. The current allocateDirect() static method in java.nio.ByteBuffer is being used by some applications to meet special memory needs -- in particular, allocating large