Going to copy my Reddit comment over to HN because I think it's valuable:
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One of the coolest things that's been worked on (by this same author, no less!) isn't even in the article!
Per has written a pretty-printer for MemorySegments and ByteBuffers that can hex-dump memory or render memory/buffers as their "struct" representations given some MemoryLayout.
You can also customize it with your own printers, it's wicked cool and helps so much to debug buffers when working with them.
What do I mean by that? Have a look at this comment for an image of a raw memory structure layout I represented with MemoryLayout, and the pretty-print rendering of it:
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One of the coolest things that's been worked on (by this same author, no less!) isn't even in the article!
Per has written a pretty-printer for MemorySegments and ByteBuffers that can hex-dump memory or render memory/buffers as their "struct" representations given some MemoryLayout.
You can also customize it with your own printers, it's wicked cool and helps so much to debug buffers when working with them.
https://github.com/openjdk/panama-foreign/pull/695
What do I mean by that? Have a look at this comment for an image of a raw memory structure layout I represented with MemoryLayout, and the pretty-print rendering of it:
https://github.com/openjdk/panama-foreign/pull/695#issuecomm...