Improving the performance of OpenJDK

[Gary Benson]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Right.  The whole idea of the way it's don ATM is bonkers: do a
> byte- at-a-time unaligned load into machine order, then reverse the
> bytes.  Maybe the hope was that the compiler would see all this
> cruft and silently convert it into an efficient form, but, er, no.
> :-(

How does it work for longer types?  For a 64-bit value, for instance,
is it better to always do 8 individual loads, or might it be better
to try and optimize like they have done?

Cheers,
Gary

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