The const buffers of the various implementations are now able to share the underlying memory.
At least until they are forced not to.
Const buffers will behave ust like normal buffers, except they start out as read-only.
When they are made writable, or sliced, then they will allocate their own independent copy of the memory.
That way, const buffers can have their contents changed, and behave just like normal buffers.
The const-ness is a pure optimisation that should not have any externally observable behaviour.
This abstraction was only used to allow composing over both buffers and sends of buffers, but we can also do that with method overloads.
The Deref had weird semantics and consequences that didn't make much sense.
In other words, it did not pay a return on its complexity cost.
Previously the test results were only attached to passing builds, which is, like, the opposite of useful.
Also finally figured out how to nerf the local docker layer cache.
Recorded this new knowledge as make commands.
Instead use Mockito to implement the throwing behaviour on the buffers in those tests.
Sadly Mockito cannot spy or mock our Buffer implementation classes, and does not allow mocking an interface while spying on an implementation, so we have to do a more complicated dance with our mocking.
This supports more use cases.
The ensureWritable method can now amortise its allocation cost by allocating more than what is strictly necessary to satisfy the immediate call.
The bifurcate method can now split at a given offset.
Motivation:
Derefs are not necessarily their referents.
This is the case for Send, for instance.
Modification:
The Deref.isInstanceOf method is renamed to referentIsInstanceOf.
And a Send.isSendOf method has been added, that simplifies the check for sends, since it could be the case that one also needs to check if the object in question is also a Send instance.
Result:
Cleaner code that is easier to read, when working with Sends.
This fixes https://github.com/netty/netty-incubator-buffer-api/issues/46
Motivation:
When a build fails, the number one priority is figuring out why.
Having surefire test reports readily available on the Github Actions page will make this easier.
Modification:
Add a build step that uploads surefire test reports and attaches them as a check to the PR.
Result:
Easier to diagnose test failures on PRs.
Then run those tests in independent surefire forks.
This should allow Maven to hold on to less test metadata, and cope better with the large number of tests.
Motivation:
When Unsafe is available, we can supposedly do certain things faster than when it is not.
Modification:
Add a Buffer implementation that take advantage of sun.misc.Unsafe.
It has not yet been verified if this is faster in any way than, say the ByteBuffer implementation or the MemorySegment implementation.
Result:
Another Buffer implementation that can be used when Unsafe is available.
Motivation:
The untethered memory allocated by ensureWritable in a direct MemorySegment based non-pooled Buffer would be allocated without having a Cleaner attached to its ResourceScope.
This could cause that memory to leak if the Buffer instance was cast aside.
Modification:
ManagedBufferAllocator now makes sure to attach a cleaner to the buffer and its memory segment, when allocating untethered memory.
Result:
The BufferTest$CleanerTests now pass.
