4837564: (bf) Please make DirectByteBuffer performance enhancements

[Alan Bateman]

Ulf Zibis wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> maybe you remember, that I have discussed some changes with Martin 
> Buchholz related to aligning. See thead "Swap should be better done 
> native?" from around april.
>
> -Ulf
I don't recall any discussion about the alignment of direct buffers. I 
suspect you are instead thinking about this:
   http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/rev/ce0ba8da0bd1

-Alan.