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by xxs 891 days ago
2004 had java 1.4 + hotspot. 1.5 (w/ generics and stuff) was about to be released. Hotspot was there, so were the Direct Buffers.

Also accessing byte arrays and direct buffers is extremely common - if you do just "business logic" jazz - it does not happen, though. However, every hashmap needs that, pretty much each hash lookup is a direct a[hash]