No reason to re-implement all that stuff yourself....

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[manuell]

No reason to re-implement all that stuff yourself. There are good solutions for reading primitive values from a byte stream. NIO `ByteBuffer`s are one, there is ByteArrayDataInput from Guava, etc.
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About Guava, Are there real benefits using unsignedBytes instead of promoting byte to int? I've to work with a lot of unsigned values