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Leo Romanoff commented on AVRO-1282:
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I don't know if you noticed it, but there is now a second line of protection in
ReflectData. In this class we do not statically refer to Unsafe. Instead we try
to dynamically load a class that refers to it. If it fails, we revert back to a
reflection based solution. Or do you see this approach failing as well?
> Make use of the sun.misc.Unsafe class during serialization if a JDK supports
> it
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> Key: AVRO-1282
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1282
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.7.4
> Reporter: Leo Romanoff
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: avro-1282-v1.patch, avro-1282-v2.patch,
> avro-1282-v3.patch, avro-1282-v4.patch, avro-1282-v5.patch,
> avro-1282-v6.patch, avro-1282-v7.patch, avro-1282-v8.patch,
> TestUnsafeUtil.java
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> Unsafe can be used to significantly speed up serialization process, if a JDK
> implementation supports java.misc.Unsafe properly. Most JDKs running on PCs
> support it. Some platforms like Android lack a proper support for Unsafe yet.
> There are two possibilities to use Unsafe for serialization:
> 1) Very quick access to the fields of objects. It is way faster than with the
> reflection-based approach using Field.get/set
> 2) Input and Output streams can be using Unsafe to perform very quick
> input/output.
>
> 3) More over, Unsafe makes it possible to serialize to/deserialize from
> off-heap memory directly and very quickly, without any intermediate buffers
> allocated on heap. There is virtually no overhead compared to the usual byte
> arrays.
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