[CASSANDRA-5664] Improve serialization in the native protocol

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.1
• Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
• Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne

Authors

Sylvain Lebresne

Reviewers

Daniel Norberg

• Created: 19/Jun/13 15:05
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 22/Aug/13 07:27

Description

Message serialization in the native protocol currently make a Netty's ChannelBuffers.wrappedBuffer(). The rational was to avoid copying of the values bytes when such value are biggish. This has a cost however, especially with lots of small values, and as suggested in CASSANDRA-5422, this might well be a more common scenario for Cassandra, so let's consider directly serializing in a newly allocated buffer.