On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Han, Xiaodan <xiaodan....@baml.com> wrote: > Is GenericDatumReader thread safe? What about the writer.
Yes, a DatumReader instance may be used in multiple threads. Encoder and Decoder are not thread-safe, but DatumReader and DatumWriter are. > If we change the behavior of the Reader, would you suggest we also make the > same change for the Writer? Yes, re-using a single GenericDatumWriter to write multiple objects should improve performance. Doug
