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Related: #4333 #4421 #5128 Motivation: slice(), duplicate() and readSlice() currently create a non-recyclable derived buffer instance. Under heavy load, an application that creates a lot of derived buffers can put the garbage collector under pressure. Modifications: - Add the following methods which creates a non-recyclable derived buffer - retainedSlice() - retainedDuplicate() - readRetainedSlice() - Add the new recyclable derived buffer implementations, which has its own reference count value - Add ByteBufHolder.retainedDuplicate() - Add ByteBufHolder.replace(ByteBuf) so that.. - a user can replace the content of the holder in a consistent way - copy/duplicate/retainedDuplicate() can delegate the holder construction to replace(ByteBuf) - Use retainedDuplicate() and retainedSlice() wherever possible - Miscellaneous: - Rename DuplicateByteBufTest to DuplicatedByteBufTest (missing 'D') - Make ReplayingDecoderByteBuf.reject() return an exception instead of throwing it so that its callers don't need to add dummy return statement Result: Derived buffers are now recycled when created via retainedSlice() and retainedDuplicate() and derived from a pooled buffer
Netty Project
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.
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How to build
For the detailed information about building and developing Netty, please visit the developer guide. This page only gives very basic information.
You require the following to build Netty:
- Latest stable Oracle JDK 7
- Latest stable Apache Maven
- If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.
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Development of all versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to <majorVersion>.<minorVersion>. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in the branch '3.9' and the branch '4.0' respectively.