Re: Tungsten and sun.misc.Unsafe

2015-08-21 Thread Marek Kolodziej
ll the > use of Unsafe with a newer alternative in one release if absolutely > necessary (the actual coding takes only a day or two). > > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Marek Kolodziej > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I attended the Tungsten-related presentations at

Tungsten and sun.misc.Unsafe

2015-08-21 Thread Marek Kolodziej
Hello, I attended the Tungsten-related presentations at Spark Summit (by Josh Rosen) and at Big Data Scala (by Matei Zaharia). Needless to say, this project holds great promise for major performance improvements. At Josh's talk, I heard about the use of sun.misc.Unsafe as a way of achieving some