如果您需要替换当前使用它的某个类所提供的功能，则需要使用它。

这可以是自定义/更快/更紧凑的序列化/反序列化，一个更快/更大的缓冲区/可调整大小的ByteBuffer版本，或者添加一个原子变量，例如当前不支持的。

我曾经用它来处理所有这些问题。

not safe.park()和not safe.unpark()用于构建自定义并发控制结构和协作调度机制。

使用它来有效地访问和分配大量的内存，例如在您自己的体素引擎中!(例如《我的世界》风格的游戏。)

In my experience, the JVM is often unable to eliminate bounds-checking in place you truly need it. For example, if you're iterating over a large array, but the actual memory access is tucked underneath a non-virtual* method call in the loop, the JVM may still perform a bounds check with each array access, rather than once just before the loop. Thus, for potentially large performance gains, you can eliminate JVM bounds-checking inside the loop via a method which employs sun.misc.Unsafe to access the memory directly, making sure to do any bounds-checking yourself at the correct places. (You are gonna bounds check at some level, right?) *by non-virtual, I mean the JVM shouldn't have to dynamically resolve whatever your particular method is, because you've correctly guaranteed that class/method/instance are some combination of static/final/what-have-you.

对于我自己开发的体素引擎来说，这在块生成和序列化期间(在我同时读取/写入整个数组的低位置)带来了显著的性能提升。结果可能会有所不同，但如果缺乏界限消除是您的问题，那么这将解决它。

There are some potentially major problems with this: specifically, when you provide the ability to access memory without bounds-checking to clients of your interface, they will probably abuse it. (Don't forget that hackers can also be clients of your interface... especially in the case of a voxel engine written in Java.) Thus, you should either design your interface in a way such that memory access cannot be abused, or you should be extremely careful to validate user-data before it can ever, ever mingle with your dangerous interface. Considering the catastrophic things a hacker can do with unchecked memory access, it's probably best to take both approaches.

例子

VM "intrinsification." ie CAS (Compare-And-Swap) used in Lock-Free Hash Tables eg:sun.misc.Unsafe.compareAndSwapInt it can make real JNI calls into native code that contains special instructions for CAS read more about CAS here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap The sun.misc.Unsafe functionality of the host VM can be used to allocate uninitialized objects and then interpret the constructor invocation as any other method call. One can track the data from the native address.It is possible to retrieve an object’s memory address using the java.lang.Unsafe class, and operate on its fields directly via unsafe get/put methods! Compile time optimizations for JVM. HIgh performance VM using "magic", requiring low-level operations. eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jikes_RVM Allocating memory, sun.misc.Unsafe.allocateMemory eg:- DirectByteBuffer constructor internally calls it when ByteBuffer.allocateDirect is invoked Tracing the call stack and replaying with values instantiated by sun.misc.Unsafe, useful for instrumentation sun.misc.Unsafe.arrayBaseOffset and arrayIndexScale can be used to develop arraylets,a technique for efficiently breaking up large arrays into smaller objects to limit the real-time cost of scan, update or move operations on large objects http://robaustin.wikidot.com/how-to-write-to-direct-memory-locations-in-java

更多的参考资料在这里- http://bytescrolls.blogspot.com/2011/04/interesting-uses-of-sunmiscunsafe.html

为了有效地复制内存(至少对于短块，复制速度比System.arraycopy()快);由Java LZF和Snappy编解码器使用。它们使用'getLong'和'putLong'，这比逐字节复制要快;在复制16/32/64字节块时尤其有效。

我自己没有使用过它，但我认为如果你有一个变量，只是偶尔被多个线程读取(所以你真的不想让它volatile)，你可以在主线程中写入它时使用putObjectVolatile，在从其他线程中进行罕见的读取时使用readObjectVolatile。