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Leo Romanoff commented on AVRO-1282: ------------------------------------ Hmm. At the moment we use UnsafeUtil only internally, so it could be hidden. But in principle, it would be nice to find a proper solution. Regarding avro-ipc failures: Sorry, for some reason I cannot test locally. I get this: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project avro-tools: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.apache.avro:avro-tools:jar:1.7.5-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find org.apache.avro:trevni-avro:jar:tests:1.7.5-SNAPSHOT in http://repository.apache.org/snapshots was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of apache.snapshots has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1] Since I cannot test some things at the moment, I cannot always detect if something is broken. > Make use of the sun.misc.Unsafe class during serialization if a JDK supports > it > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: AVRO-1282 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1282 > Project: Avro > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: java > Affects Versions: 1.7.4 > Reporter: Leo Romanoff > Priority: Minor > Attachments: avro-1282-v1.patch, avro-1282-v2.patch, > avro-1282-v3.patch, avro-1282-v4.patch, avro-1282-v5.patch, > avro-1282-v6.patch, avro-1282-v7.patch, avro-1282-v8.patch, > TestUnsafeUtil.java > > > Unsafe can be used to significantly speed up serialization process, if a JDK > implementation supports java.misc.Unsafe properly. Most JDKs running on PCs > support it. Some platforms like Android lack a proper support for Unsafe yet. > There are two possibilities to use Unsafe for serialization: > 1) Very quick access to the fields of objects. It is way faster than with the > reflection-based approach using Field.get/set > 2) Input and Output streams can be using Unsafe to perform very quick > input/output. > > 3) More over, Unsafe makes it possible to serialize to/deserialize from > off-heap memory directly and very quickly, without any intermediate buffers > allocated on heap. There is virtually no overhead compared to the usual byte > arrays. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira