Is there an equivalent to memcpy() in Java?

Question

I have a byte[] and would like to copy it into another byte[]. Maybe I am showing my simple \'C\' background here, but is there an equivalent to memcpy() on byte arrays in

Answer 1

You can use System.arrayCopy. It copies elements from a source array to a destination array. The Sun implementation uses hand-optimized assembler, so this is fast.