Re: [cp-patches] FYI: Implementing Little Endian and Big Endian encodings.

[Michael Koch]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:45:03PM +0200, Meskauskas Audrius wrote:
> >java.nio gives handling of little-, big- and mixed-endianess for free.
> >Perhaps you wanna look into using this. This will probably increase 
> >performance
> >of the CORBA code too.
> 
> The direct use of the .nio package would make CORBA dependent from the
> 1.4 implementation. The 1.2, 1.3 API specifications have CORBA and have no 
> nio.
> Bounding to nio means that we do not plan to release these versions, going
> directly to 1.4. Mark writes in plans "drop the unfinished parts before 
> release" -
>
> but how to drop if these parts are in use somewhere?

java.nio is an integral part of GNU classpath and cannot be removed.
E.g. its used to do charset conversion and file I/O.



Michael
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