Leo, Please submit your patches, I'd love to see them. Create an issue in Jira and attach your changes there.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO Thanks, Doug On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Leo Romanoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've played a bit with Avro serialization based on reflection, i.e. with the > classes from org.apache.avro.generic package. > It works fine in this mode, but is rather slow compared to such frameworks > like protostuff or kryo. > Quick look at the source code has shown that a lot of reflection-based > operations and class lookups are not cached. And such operations are usually > pretty expensive when executed by a JVM. > > So I changed some of org.apache.avro.generic classes, introduced caching and > a few other optimizations. Now it seems to perform much better. > I could submit my patch for a review, if anyone is interested in such > improvements. I'm new to Avro, but I got the impression that Voldermont and > may be a few other BigData projects are using it? May be they are interested, > though I don't know if they use this reflection-based serialization. > > Best Regards, > Leo
