How to know if cpu supports unaligned memory accesses ?

[Laurent Bourgès]

Hi,
In the Marlin renderer & in other Unsafe use cases (pixel tile processing)
for java2d pipelines, I do use putInt()/putLong() primitives even if the
address is not aligned (to 4 or 8 bytes) to get faster processing of byte
buffer or arrays...

Is it possible in java (jdk internals) to query cpu capabilities like
endianness, unaligned support ?

For x86-64: unaligned ~ aligned, so it is not necessary to add padding in
the data layout and then it is better to have smaller buffers.

I would like write code like:
if (cpu_supports_unaligned) {
...
Use int/long to pack bytes...
} else {
Use byte (fallback)
}


Laurent