Avoid buffer allocations when encoding a long for appending to another buffer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JGRP-1774 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1774 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Enhancement Reporter: Sanne Grinovero Assignee: Sanne Grinovero Fix For: 3.5 When a long gets encoded, a function is used which returns a {{byte[]}}. There are some hot methods which invoke this encoding, to then append the buffer's content into a _DataOutput_. Especially for the case of these hot methods we should rather have the function write the encoded form directly into the _DataOutput_.