How to read efficiently from socket using Java NIO

Question

I am working on task involving reading from the socket trading quotes and I need to achieve minimum latency and high throughput.

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Answer 1

Assuming you can adapt your parser API to accept (byte[] buffer, int offset, int length) as arguments, you can just pass (bb.array(), 0, bb.limit()) as parameters and not have to create the new byte[] at all per read. However this isn't likely to be the rate-determining step.