Unsafe: efficiently comparing two byte arrays

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/13/2014 11:57 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Now i am in two minds to whether to add ByteBuffer.compareUnsigned or add Arrays.compareUnsigned.
> 
> An explosion of methods on Arrays for all types (plus to/from versions) would be annoying.

Surely it's a no brainer?  All we have to do is add the intrinsics for
ByteBuffers, then we get fast ByteBuffers and fast array comparisons too.
I don't see the problem.

Andrew.