Short/Character.reverseBytes intrinsics

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
Wed Apr 21 16:47:11 PDT 2010


Am 22.04.2010 00:26, schrieb John Rose:
> On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote:
>
>    
>> What about having intrinsics for byte swapping on float/double values?
>> This could give a significant performance boost on direct nio buffers.
>>      
> The existing intrinsics for swapping and int/float raw conversion will do this, when combined in the obvious way.  -- John
>
>    

Thanks.
Are there intrinsics for int/float raw conversion ?
How are the macros called ?

-Ulf




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