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Stu Hood commented on AVRO-679:
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> Unfortunately, ByteBuffer is polymorphic and thus 'put' is a virtual method.
I had not thought of the polymorphism in ByteBuffer: thanks for the tip! Since
groups are of a known length, copying to and from a temporary byte[] of the max
group length would probably work swimmingly.
> Improved encodings for arrays
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>
> Key: AVRO-679
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-679
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: spec
> Reporter: Stu Hood
> Priority: Minor
>
> There are better ways to encode arrays of varints [1] which are faster to
> decode, and more space efficient than encoding varints independently.
> Extending the idea to other types of variable length data like 'bytes' and
> 'string', you could encode the entries for an array block as an array of
> lengths, followed by contiguous byte/utf8 data.
> [1] group varint encoding: slides 57-63 of
> http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/people/jeff/WSDM09-keynote.pdf
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