> First, primitive operations for crypto are intrinsics in Java and operate without FFI at all.
This is a pretty strange assertion given that I didn’t specify the crypto operation I wanted to perform. Is XAES-256-GCM available in the Java standard library?
> Doing it this way is not so common in Java anyway
Sure, because doing it the other way would be very expensive. But that doesn’t mean applications which can’t front or backload native processing don’t exist, it just means they will have slower throughput in Java.
It’s fine for a language to make that tradeoff, but it is a tradeoff
This is a pretty strange assertion given that I didn’t specify the crypto operation I wanted to perform. Is XAES-256-GCM available in the Java standard library?
> Doing it this way is not so common in Java anyway
Sure, because doing it the other way would be very expensive. But that doesn’t mean applications which can’t front or backload native processing don’t exist, it just means they will have slower throughput in Java.
It’s fine for a language to make that tradeoff, but it is a tradeoff