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

[John Rose]

Wow, this looks excellent.  I send a summary to panama-dev, FYI:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2015-March/000098.html

That note has some discussion of atomicity which you might want to incorporate when you write the javadoc.

— John

On Mar 6, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> I've tried to so everything I've been asked.  If this version passes
> muster with everyone I'll Javadoc all the public methods and fields
> and put it up for RFA next week.
> 
> I guess it's going to need a lot of testing and security analysis.
> 
> I added versions of all {put,get} methods with the boolean bigEndian
> argument.  This makes HeapByteBuffer much cleaner, and it does not
> need to know the machine endianness at all.  I hope that's OK.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/unaligned.hotspot.4/
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/unaligned.jdk.4/