Hi Tom! >> >> * We didn't think to apply a GZip compression - it is true that we >> are working off-heap, but hopefully the allocated space can handle >> more objects by compressing them >> > > do you mean as an intermediate step before "going off-heap" ? I think > that'd be good but we should be able to read both GZipped and not GZipped > data thus we may need some kind of markers/headers for that (or just a try > / catch block). >
nope, I meant on the fly, while storing serialized bytes - it is possible applying the GZip compression on the Stream wrapper on ByetBuffers, have a look at Zentaur's ResponseSerializer[1] that already does that! :P all the best, have a nice day! -Simo [1] http://s.apache.org/8wX http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/
