More generally, Avro contribution guidelines are at: https://cwiki.apache.org/AVRO/how-to-contribute.html
Doug On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
