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Re: what's the point of java.nio?
- From: Cedric Berger <cedric at berger dot to>
- To: Adam Megacz <megacz at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 12:40:01 +0200
- Subject: Re: what's the point of java.nio?
- References: <m1u0xx71ka.fsf@nowhere.com> <m1n03p71i3.fsf@nowhere.com>
Adam Megacz wrote:
Oh yeah, and CharSequence, which I admit is a really, really good idea.
- and memory mapped files.
- and I'm sure that you will see in an upcoming version TRUE
asynchronous IO,
and that cannot be implemented with byte[] since byte arrays can be moved
by the garbage collector.
- NativeByteBuffer is also great to talk to C code, to hardware drivers
and such.
Cedric