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Jim Kellerman commented on HBASE-76:
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If TextSequence obeyed ISA sematics wrt Text, would that solve the problem?

Or should we move from Text and TextSequence to String?


> [hbase] performance: Try to purge servers of Text
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-76
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-76
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: regionserver
>            Reporter: stack
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Chatting with Jim while looking at profiler outputs, we should make an effort 
> at purging the servers of the Text type so HRegionServer doesn't ever have to 
> deal in Characters and the concomitant encode/decode to UTF-8.  Toward this 
> end, we'd make changes like moving HStoreKey to have four rather than 3 data 
> members: column family, column family qualifier, row + timestamp done as a 
> basic Writable -- ImmutableBytesWritable? -- and a long rather than a Text 
> column, Text row and a timestamp long.  This would save on our having to do 
> the relatively expensive 'find' of the column family separator inside in 
> extractFamily (>10% of CPU scanning).  Chatting about it, we could effect the 
> change without change in the public client API; clients could continue to 
> take Text type for row and column and then client-side, the convertion to 
> HStoreKey could be done before crossing the wire to the server.
>  

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