what's the point of java.nio?

Mon May 31 05:23:00 GMT 2004

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)
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