/**
   * The instance that actually does the work; delegates to VarHandle, Unsafe, or a Java-8
   * compatible pure-Java fallback.
   */
  private static final LittleEndianBytes byteArray = makeGetter();

  /**
   * Load 8 bytes into long in a little endian manner, from the substring between position and
   * position + 8. The array must have at least 8 bytes from offset (inclusive).
   *