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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-1411: ------------------------------------ Please contribute a patch with this change. Also please provide benchmark results. Ideally these would use the existing performance suite (lang/java/ipc/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/io/Perf.java). Once we can validate the performance improvement then we can probably get the change committed. > org.apache.avro.util.Utf8 performance improvement by remove private Charset > in class > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: AVRO-1411 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1411 > Project: Avro > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: java > Affects Versions: 1.7.5 > Reporter: Tie Liu > Priority: Minor > > Inside org.apache.avro.util.Utf8 class, it has a private member field defined > as: private static final Charset UTF8 = Charset.forName("UTF-8"); > and it's used as: > public static final byte[] getBytesFor(String str) { > return str.getBytes(UTF8); > } > I guess the intention of create this object is to save object creation, but > when we dive into the string.getBytes code, when it's called with Charset, it > actually create a new StringEncoder in java.lang.StringCoding: > static byte[] encode(Charset cs, char[] ca, int off, int len) { > StringEncoder se = new StringEncoder(cs, cs.name()); > char[] c = Arrays.copyOf(ca, ca.length); > return se.encode(c, off, len); > } > If instead we just call it with string literal "UTF-8", it will just reuse > the threadlocal StringEncoder. > We tried overwrite this class with passing string literal and proved those > short lived StringEncoder objects is not created any more. Would like apache > to fix this so we don't need to overwrite it anymore. > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159)