How to create an efficient primitive iterable from an array, offset and length?

[leventov]

It seems that API for working with array slices is missing, that makes users to write inefficient code like the following:

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-datatypes-collections/blob/c374783ff962041d003125cbd7b617bab5d16bff/eclipse-collections/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/eclipsecollections/deser/BaseCollectionDeserializer.java#L199-L218