[AVRO-557] Speed up one-time data decoding

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: java
• Labels: performance
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Kevin Oliver
• Created: 02/Jun/10 20:12
• Updated: 08/Sep/10 21:07
• Resolved: 10/Aug/10 22:20

Description

There are big gains to be had in performance when using a BinaryDecoder and a GenericDatumReader just one time. This is due to the relatively expensive parsing and initialization that came with 1.3. Patch with example code and a Perf harness to follow.