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Re: what's the point of java.nio?

Bart Locanthi <bart@sabl.com> writes:
> * scatter/gather i/o

Hrm, okay, this sort of makes sense.  But couldn't they just have made
InputStream take an array of byte[]'s (a byte[][])?

> * platform-independent adjustable byte ordering

IMHO all this requires is two new methods on each of the numeric
wrapper classes:

  Integer.fromLittleEndian(byte[], int offset)
  Integer.fromBigEndian(byte[], int offset)

  - a
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