Unsafe.{get,put}-X-Unaligned; Efficient array comparison intrinsics

Bernd Eckenfels ecki at zusammenkunft.net
Tue Mar 3 21:05:14 UTC 2015


Am Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:48:12 -0800
schrieb John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com>:
> I'm a little puzzled by the meaning of UseUnalignedAccesses.
> From a portable point of view, it sounds like the JVM will be using
> special access operators. But in fact, it is using the normal aligned
> memory access operators for unaligned accesses also. (Remember, from
> a portability point of view the normal memory access operators work
> only on aligned addresses.) I don't have a nice replacement name
> thought.

Maybe UseUnconstrainedAccess or AlignmentInsensitiveAccess?

Gruss
Bernd



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