On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 23:41:19 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> `MethodHandles.byteArrayViewVarHandle` exposes checked multi-byte access to
> byte arrays via VarHandle. This larger access speeds up many operations, yet
> it cannot be used in early bootstrap, and as a result, people tend to use
> `Unsafe` which can threaten memory safety of the Java Platform.
>
> To promote the safe use of multi-byte access, I propose to move the checked
> implementations from VarHandle to ByteArray to allow earlier use and reduce
> maintenance costs. In addition, ByteArrayLittleEndian is consolidated, and
> now the access methods are distinguished by BO (byte order) / BE (big endian)
> / LE (little endian) suffixes to indicate their access features.
test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/vm/compiler/MergeStores.java line 175:
> 173: public byte[] store_B2_con_offs_allocate_bale() {
> 174: byte[] aB = new byte[RANGE];
> 175: ByteArray.setShortLE(aB, offset, (short)0x0201);
Did you run this benchmark to see if there is any impact?
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23478#discussion_r1970261194
