Hello! There's a long standing PR[1][2] that provides an impressive performance boost to deserializing Avro.
The author has been patient and reactive for a LONG time (thanks Martin!), and it's inspired some really interesting discussion. I'd like to merge and cherry-pick into release 1.9.2 -- as long as it's turned off there shouldn't be any visible effect at all, and having it in a release would be a great way to find regressions (if any) and encourage some of the ideas brought up in the PR discussions. Any objections? Is this too big a change for a minor release? I noted in the PR that it would be pretty cool if we had a "better" way of noting experimental features (and that the Yetus annotations would be a good start for 1.10!) All my best, Ryan [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2247 [2]: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/391
