Field Detail

• buf

  final byte[] buf

  The byte buffer used for reading and writing.

• queue

  static final Queue<Reference<Streams.Buffer[]>> queue

  Each entry in this queue holds a soft reference to an array initialized with instances of this class.

  The best choice would be a ConcurrentLinkedDeque where I could call Deque.push(Object) to achieve many garbage collector pickups of old SoftReferences further down the stack, but this class is only available since JSE 7. A LinkedBlockingDeque is supposedly not a good choice because it uses locks, which I would like to abandon.

• read

  int read

  The actual number of bytes read into the buffer. -1 represents end-of-file or IOException.

Constructor Detail

• Streams.Buffer

  private Streams.Buffer()

Method Detail

• allocate

  static Streams.Buffer[] allocate()

• release

  static void release(Streams.Buffer[] buffers)