Hello all This is regarding the PR: https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/1355
In the above PR, I am proposing the removal of a public field which is statically initialized in the upcoming release 3.4.9. Removing this static initialization will speed up a single connection client initialization time by 30%. Further note that this field is not used in the client code base currently and has been deprecated since release 3.3.5. Although it's usage is very unlikely since this field initializes a very old serializer, the removal will break any application layer code which is using this field in their code base. The break would be caught during compilation and could be replaced with an alternative as depicted below. *Before:* Serializers.DEFAULT_RESULT_SERIALIZER *After:* Serializers.MIME_GRAPHSON_V1D0.simpleInstance() We are willing to make this breaking change because the likelihood of any code using this public field is very low and the gains we get by removing this is significant. Also note that these fields are already removed in 3.5.0. Please reply to this thread in the next 72 hours. if you have any concerns about this change. Regards, Divij Vaidya
