I want to do a copy (of a rectangle area) of the ARGB values from a source BufferedImage into a destination BufferedImage. No compositing should be done: if I copy a pixel with an ARGB value of 0x8000BE50 (alpha value at 128), then the destination pixel must be exactly 0x8000BE50, totally overriding the destination pixel.

I've got a very precise question and I made a unit test to show what I need. The unit test is fully functional and self-contained and is passing fine and is doing precisely what I want.

However, I want a faster and more memory efficient method to replace copySrcIntoDstAt(...).

That's the whole point of my question: I'm not after how to "fill" the image in a faster way (what I did is just an example to have a unit test). All I want is to know what would be a fast and memory efficient way to do it (ie fast and not creating needless objects).

The proof-of-concept implementation I've made is obviously very memory efficient, but it is slow (doing one getRGB and one setRGB for every pixel).

Schematically, I've got this: (where A indicates corresponding pixels from the destination image before the copy)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

And I want to have this:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

where 'B' represents the pixels from the src image.

I'm looking for an exact replacement of the method, not for an API link/quote.

import org.junit.Test;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class TestCopy {

    private static final int COL1 = 0x8000BE50;  // alpha at 128
    private static final int COL2 = 0x1732FE87;  // alpha at  23 

    @Test
    public void testPixelsCopy() {
        final BufferedImage src = new BufferedImage(  5,  5, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB );
        final BufferedImage dst = new BufferedImage( 20, 20, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB );
        convenienceFill( src, COL1 );
        convenienceFill( dst, COL2 );
        copySrcIntoDstAt( src, dst, 3, 4 );
        for (int x = 0; x < dst.getWidth(); x++) {
            for (int y = 0; y < dst.getHeight(); y++) {
                if ( x >= 3 && x <= 7 && y >= 4 && y <= 8 ) {
                    assertEquals( COL1, dst.getRGB(x,y) );
                } else {
                    assertEquals( COL2, dst.getRGB(x,y) );
                }
            }
        }
    }

    // clipping is unnecessary
    private static void copySrcIntoDstAt(
            final BufferedImage src,
            final BufferedImage dst,
            final int dx,
            final int dy
    ) {
        // TODO: replace this by a much more efficient method
        for (int x = 0; x < src.getWidth(); x++) {
            for (int y = 0; y < src.getHeight(); y++) {
                dst.setRGB( dx + x, dy + y, src.getRGB(x,y) );
            }
        }
    }

    // This method is just a convenience method, there's
    // no point in optimizing this method, this is not what
    // this question is about
    private static void convenienceFill(
            final BufferedImage bi,
            final int color
    ) {
        for (int x = 0; x < bi.getWidth(); x++) {
            for (int y = 0; y < bi.getHeight(); y++) {
                bi.setRGB( x, y, color );
            }
        }
    }

}