On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:40 PM, lars hofhansl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking at KeyValue I see three variable purely used for caching:
> timestampCache(long), rowCache(byte[]), and keyLength(int).
>
> From a quick glance over the code I do not see many spots where we repeatedly 
> get the TS, rowKey, of keyLength from the same KV.
> Together these consume 24 bytes (almost 1/2 of KeyValue's constant memory 
> overhead) on every key value created, and we create
> a *lot* KVs (real and "fake" ones) during scanning and seeking.
>
> Were these added to address specific performance concerns? If not, we might 
> consider removing these.
>

IIRC, I added them after watching stuff in a profiler (a long time
ago).  Things change.  Thats a lot of static mem to give up.

St.Ack

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