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I'm looking for the best way to do in my application, and now I'm wondering:

I received a byte array (byte[]) by reading an InputStream. Then I have to do some treatment, so I pass this array as a parameter of a method. Coming from C++ language, and as I have to do this treatment as fast as possible, and many time, I am wondering if passing a byte array by value might not cause problems.

Is it worth creating a ByteBuffer object to pass a reference to my method instead of a value?

Thank you for your help and advices.

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  • don't worry, you are not passing it by value. Commented Feb 1, 2013 at 13:39

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In Java arrays are objects, so you are actually passing a copy of the reference variable to this object.

IIRC in C++ passing an array is the equivalent of passing a pointer to the first element.

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Passing a byte[] reference is just like passing an ordinal object reference. There will be no copying of the array. It is not worth to wrap around with a ByteBuffer.

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Generaly, working with primitive types is faster as it requires less memory to store the data.

I would therefore suggest to keep the byte array solution. This, of course depends what "treatment" you intend to do with it :)

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