Aligned long views over byte arrays and heap ByteBuffers

[MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy Management)]

On 20/01/2016, 14:15, "valhalla-dev on behalf of Paul Sandoz"
<valhalla-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net on behalf of
paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:

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>> On 20 Jan 2016, at 14:27, Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>How about alignIndex(int,int)?
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>That might work, although it implies returning an aligned index rather
>than a modulus associated with the current index and unit size. I think
>that would be more precise if we include boolean argument for rounding
>up/down to the nearest aligned index:
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>  alignedIndex(int index, int unitSize, boolean roundUp)
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>For rounding down a negative value might be returned. I still prefer a
>modulus returning method.

I kind of agree that alignedIndex suggests an actual index is returned.
How about alignedOffset, or alignedDistance maybe?

Duncan.