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Scott Carey commented on AVRO-985:
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This is a big performance problem, We could use some sort of Avro Value API
(perhaps simply GenericData and friends, in immutable form) instead of the JSON
objecs to represent default values. Then, when serializing the serialized
bytes can be cached instead and output, and when deserializing the immutable
Generic object can be substituted.
> Remove byte-by-byte copying in RecordBuilderBase.defaultValue for non-complex
> types
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>
> Key: AVRO-985
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-985
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.6.1
> Reporter: Douglas Kaminsky
>
> In one section of RecordBuilderBase.defaultValue(Field) (quoted below) a
> bytewise copy of the default object is created based on the JSON value
> provided. However, this is an extremely inefficient operation and causes
> large slowdowns when building large object sets, including latency spikes
> when the binary encoder flushes.
> A simple workaround for a majority of cases would be to have a separate code
> path for "primitives" (fixed, string, boolean, int, double, enum, float,
> bytes) that allows direct creation rather than a full bytewise copy (and
> subsequent deep copy).
> *_RecordBuilderBase.java_*:
> {code}
> // If not cached, get the default Java value by encoding the default JSON
> // value and then decoding it:
> if (defaultValue == null) {
> ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> encoder = EncoderFactory.get().binaryEncoder(baos, encoder);
> ResolvingGrammarGenerator.encode(
> encoder, field.schema(), defaultJsonValue);
> encoder.flush();
> decoder = DecoderFactory.get().binaryDecoder(
> baos.toByteArray(), decoder);
> defaultValue = new GenericDatumReader(
> field.schema()).read(null, decoder);
> defaultSchemaValues.putIfAbsent(field.pos(), defaultValue);
> }
> {code}
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