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Gabor Horvath commented on FLINK-3673:
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Sure, I have extended the description of the ticket.
> Annotations for code generation
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> Key: FLINK-3673
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3673
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Type Serialization System
> Reporter: Gabor Horvath
> Assignee: Gabor Horvath
> Labels: gsoc2016
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> Annotations should be utilized to generate more efficient serialization code.
> Planned improvements:
> * Using never null annotations on a field, the serialized representation can
> omit the 1 byte null tags and the serializer code handling this tag.
> * Using never null annotiation on the POJO, we can omit the top level null
> tag.
> * Making a POJO final we can omit the subclass tag.
> The very same annotations can be used to make the getLength method much
> smarter.
> Code generation is a prerequisite, to avoid runtime checks which could make
> the common codepath (without annotations) slower.
> I could also annotate some internal Flink types to make them more efficient.
> The main risk: it would break savepoints created with a Flink version that
> did not have annotation. We could either introduce a compatibility mode, or
> force users to recreate those save points.
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