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Daniel Kulp updated AVRO-2281:
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Resolution: Fixed
Assignee: Daniel Kulp
Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
Status: Resolved (was: Patch Available)
> Performance improvement in ruby binary decoder and encoder
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> Key: AVRO-2281
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2281
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: ruby
> Affects Versions: 1.9.0
> Reporter: Kyle Phelps
> Assignee: Daniel Kulp
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.9.0
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> The ruby binary decoder has some inefficient memory usage patterns. The
> decoding process relies on `unpack` quite heavily, but it allocates an array
> that is not used as we just access the first element of the result. In ruby
> 2.4 we can use the optimized version of this, `unpack1` which avoids
> allocating the unused array. In `byte!`, we can go one step further and just
> use the `readbyte` method provided by the IO module - this improves the
> performance of `byte!` by about 50%. Additionally, there are a few strings in
> the encoder and decoder that should be frozen to reduce unnecessary string
> allocations.
>
> With these changes, I've seen about a 20% performance improvement when
> decoding.
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