Re: [infinispan-dev] Infinispan embedded off-heap cache

Thanks very much Tristan and Jaromir for these responses. Interesting that Netty's off-heap allocation management (jemalloc) may deliver us a ' Save a 1xCOPY back to the heap!' advantage that Unsafe malloc/free does not. Peter Lawrey has commented that he will research Netty's potential to be used in parts of OpenHFT HugeCollections .... TBD: what is the full advantage/dis-advantage accounting of replacing direct Unsafe malloc/free with Netty? But these are nityt/gritty details. The big-picture news is that API bridges (i.e. DataContainer) are available (and intended) to empower the community to build their own "ISPN pluggable" off-heap impls of Cache<K,V>. Nice! The consequences of our *necessarily* staying on-heap has been a "monstrous" experience for us (see http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-upwza0_lLn4/TmXB4lKkPKI/AAAAAAAAAHY/9lA7VYCmSkI... ). We are excited about this potential to bring us real remedy. -- View this message in context: http://infinispan-developer-list.980875.n3.nabble.com/infinispan-dev-Infi... Sent from the Infinispan Developer List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.