[AVRO-2039] Ruby encoding performance improvement

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Component/s: ruby
• Release Note: Ruby encoding performance improvements
• Assignee: Tim Perkins
• Reporter: Tim Perkins
• Created: 12/Jun/17 17:14
• Updated: 20/Nov/18 09:32
• Resolved: 20/Nov/18 09:32

Description

For a use case with a few levels of nesting and unions in several places within the schema we saw a 5x improvement in encoding performance with these changes to encoding using Ruby.

1. Avoid the exhaustive validation of schemas in a union

2. Avoid the repeated validation of nested schemas

https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/230

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #230