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

[Andrew Haley]

On 08/03/15 23:04, Peter Levart wrote:
> 
> On 03/08/2015 12:13 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> > That's OK if you think this approach is a better division of
>>> > concerns (Unsafe being low-level), but in Heap-X-Buffer you are only
>>> > using Unsafe.get|putXXXUnaligned() and don't consider using
>>> > get|putXXX directly when unalignedAccess() == true.
>> Right, because there's no point in doing so when unalignedAccess() ==
>> true because the exact same code will be generated.  In my Utopian
>> world nothing except Unsafe would have to deal with issues such as
>> this.  However, I think that people writing library code (e.g. array
>> comparison intrinsics) might still need to know.
>
> Ah, sorry. I haven't realized that the same code will be generated
> by compiler intrinsics. So the Java part is just for interpreter and
> platforms not supporting unaligned access and when
> UseUnalignedAccesses is explicitly disabled?

That's right.  You really have to look at both of these patches, the
HotSpot and the JDK part, for this approach to make sense.

Andrew.