[11] RFR 8193085 Vectorize the nio Buffer equals and compareTo implementations

[Paul Sandoz]

Hi,

Please review this patch to vectorize the buffer equals and compareTo implementations, using the same approach that was used for arrays:

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk/JDK-8193085-buffer-equals-compareTo-vectorize/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk/JDK-8193085-buffer-equals-compareTo-vectorize/webrev/>

This patch expands on using the double address mode of unsafe to uniformly access a memory region covered by a buffer be it on or off heap. Only buffers with the same endianness can support optimized equality and comparison.

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A follow on issue will explore a mismatch method (thus enabling support for float/double comparison that is compatible with arrays), and equals/compareTo methods that accept absolute positions (to avoid the dup.pos.limit.slice dance).

Thanks,
Paul.