Fantastic. Thanks for the summary, Feng!

- H


On Monday, September 8, 2014 5:24:05 PM UTC-4, Feng Xiao wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:32 AM, hyaticua <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Reading the change log for 2.6.0, the C++ changes describe "Various 
>> speed optimizations". 
>>
>> Does anyone know what kinds of optimizations were included in the release 
>> or what kind performance we should reasonably expect? I could not find 
>> anything in a naive google search.
>>
> The performance improvements we have made are small changes that optimize 
> very specific use cases/methods. For example, for the clear() method some 
> redundant operations has been collapsed into one (e.g., "has_bits &= ~0x1;" 
> and "has_bits &= ~0x2;" are merged into "has_bits = 0;"). The data members 
> of a generated class is also reordered to have the most-frequently accessed 
> members to appear early so they have smaller offsets. And a lot other such 
> kind of changes. For these specific cases we benchmarked (like the 
> performance of calling a clear() method repeatedly), the performance will 
> be improved by 1% to 3%. Overall though, I won't expect users to see 
> noticeable differences in their applications.
>
> For the parsing performance of protobufs, the numbers we have are around 
> ~500MB/s (i.e., parsing a 100-bytes message takes about 200 nano-seconds). 
> Serialization performance is on the same scale. Of course this result 
> depends on message definitions / data / platform, you'd better have your 
> own benchmarks for your own use case. I wound't expect the result to vary 
> too much though.
>  
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> H
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