> it causes a bunch of copying and pointer indirections. That's correct. As you said elsewhere, lot of it pins down (!) to design of Java. There's direct byte

> it causes a bunch of copying and pointer indirections. That's correct. As you said elsewhere, lot of it pins down (!) to design of Java. There's direct byte buffer, but you have to architect your code around nio APIs to utilize it. But we were talking about working with native threads.