Question about Unsafe.prefetch ... () ?

[Paul Hohensee]

Alan wrote:

> On 14/08/2014 15:48, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> > Sorry, the link didn?t come through:
> >
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6807143
> >
> At the time Paul Hohensee was experimenting with prefetching and put the
> support into HotSpot. As I recall, the intention was to add it to
> sun.misc.Unsafe when a beneficial use of using it directly in the JDK
> ibraries was identified.

True.  As I recall, we had an experimental version of Unsafe which included
the prefetch methods, but decided not to ship it because our experiments
showed no benefit to using them.

Paul