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Ben Maurer commented on THRIFT-110:
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+    lastField_.push(new TField(field));

Avoid allocation by re-using the previous TField. You might want to make it an 
ArrayList<TField> and use an int to keep track of the position of the stack. 
That way, you don't have to re-allocate when you enter/exit a struct. 

+    byte[] data = new byte[]{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};

There's a pre-allocated buffer for  longs

+  private void writeVarint16(short n) throws TException {

Just pass to writeVariant32... no need to unroll the loop

+   * TODO: make a permanent buffer like writeVarint64?

You probably should, the overhead for virtual calls is very high (I'd be 
interested to see how high... I  know it makes a big difference in C++)


+    lastField_.push(field);
+    return field;

TField is not immutable, so you shouldn't do this.

+    byte[] buf = new byte[1];
+    trans_.read(buf, 0, 1);

Allocate per class

+    switch ((byte)(type & 0x0f)) {

Use an array + lookup up (it's a shame that Java can't have a const array that 
is mapped into memory)

> A more compact format 
> ----------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-110
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-110
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Noble Paul
>         Attachments: compact-proto-spec-2.txt, compact_proto_spec.txt, 
> compact_proto_spec.txt, thrift-110-v2.patch, thrift-110-v3.patch, 
> thrift-110-v4.patch, thrift-110-v5.patch, thrift-110-v6.patch, 
> thrift-110.patch
>
>
> Thrift is not very compact in writing out data as (say protobuf) . It does 
> not have the concept of variable length integers and various other 
> optimizations possible . In Solr we use a lot of such optimizations to make a 
> very compact payload. Thrift has a lot common with that format.
> It is all done in a single class
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/solr/trunk/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/util/NamedListCodec.java?revision=685640&view=markup
> The other optimizations include writing type/value  in same byte, very fast 
> writes of Strings, externalizable strings etc 
> We could use a thrift format for non-java clients and I would like to see it 
> as compact as the current java version

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