堆外集合对于分配大量内存并在使用后立即释放内存而不受GC干扰可能很有用。我基于sun.misc.Unsafe编写了一个用于处理堆外数组/列表的库。

我们使用Unsafe实现了数组、HashMaps、TreeMaps等大型集合。为了避免/最小化碎片，我们使用dlmalloc over unsafe的概念实现内存分配器。这帮助我们获得了并发性方面的性能。

不安全的。允许抛出检查异常而不声明它们。

这在处理反射或AOP的某些情况下非常有用。

假设您为用户定义的接口构建了通用代理。在特殊情况下，用户可以通过在接口中声明异常来指定由实现抛出的异常。这是我所知道的唯一方法，在接口的动态实现中引发一个受控异常。

import org.junit.Test;
/** need to allow forbidden references! */ import sun.misc.Unsafe;

/**
 * Demonstrate how to throw an undeclared checked exception.
 * This is a hack, because it uses the forbidden Class {@link sun.misc.Unsafe}.
 */
public class ExceptionTest {

    /**
     * A checked exception.
     */
    public static class MyException extends Exception {
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 5960664994726581924L;
    }

    /**
     * Throw the Exception.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("restriction")
    public static void throwUndeclared() {
        getUnsafe().throwException(new MyException());
    }

    /**
     * Return an instance of {@link sun.misc.Unsafe}.
     * @return THE instance
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("restriction")
    private static Unsafe getUnsafe() {
        try {

            Field singleoneInstanceField = Unsafe.class.getDeclaredField("theUnsafe");
            singleoneInstanceField.setAccessible(true);
            return (Unsafe) singleoneInstanceField.get(null);

        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            throw createExceptionForObtainingUnsafe(e);
        } catch (SecurityException e) {
            throw createExceptionForObtainingUnsafe(e);
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            throw createExceptionForObtainingUnsafe(e);
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            throw createExceptionForObtainingUnsafe(e);
        }
    }

    private static RuntimeException createExceptionForObtainingUnsafe(final Throwable cause) {
        return new RuntimeException("error while obtaining sun.misc.Unsafe", cause);
    }


    /**
     * scenario: test that an CheckedException {@link MyException} can be thrown
     * from an method that not declare it.
     */
    @Test(expected = MyException.class)
    public void testUnsingUnsaveToThrowCheckedException() {
        throwUndeclared();
    }
}

类不安全 用于执行低级、不安全操作的方法的集合。虽然类和所有方法都是公共的，但该类的使用是有限的，因为只有可信代码才能获得它的实例。

它的一种用法是在java.util.concurrent.atomic类中:

AtomicIntegerArray AtomicLongArray

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。

I was recently working on reimplementing the JVM and found that a surprising number of classes are implemented in terms of Unsafe. The class is mostly designed for the Java library implementers and contains features that are fundamentally unsafe but necessary for building fast primitives. For example, there are methods for getting and writing raw field offsets, using hardware-level synchronization, allocating and freeing memory, etc. It is not intended to be used by normal Java programmers; it's undocumented, implementation-specific, and inherently unsafe (hence the name!). Moreover, I think that the SecurityManager will disallow access to it in almost all cases.

简而言之，它的存在主要是为了允许库实现者访问底层机器，而不必在某些类(如AtomicInteger native)中声明每个方法。在常规Java编程中不需要使用或担心它，因为重点是使其余的库足够快，从而不需要这种访问。