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Motivation: SlicedByteBuf did double reference count checking for various bulk operations, which affects performance. Modifications: - Add package private method to AbstractByteBuf that can be used to check indexes without check the reference count - Use this new method in the bulk operation os SlicedByteBuf as the reference count checks take place on the wrapped buffer anyway - Fix test-case to not try to read data that is out of the bounds of the buffer. Result: Better performance on bulk operations when using SlicedByteBuf (and sub-classes)
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.
Branches to look
The 'master' branch is where the development of the latest major version lives on. The development of all other major versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to its major version number. For example, the development of 3.x and 4.x resides in the branch '3' and the branch '4' respectively.