[HADOOP-5196] avoiding unnecessary byte[] allocation in SequenceFile.CompressedBytes and SequenceFile.UncompressedBytes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: io
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Hong Tang
• Reporter: Hong Tang
• Created: 07/Feb/09 02:41
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:35
• Resolved: 19/Mar/09 17:44

Description

SequenceFile.CompressedBytes and SequenceFile.UncompressedBytes are used by the SequenceFile's raw bytes reading/writing API. The current implementation does not reuse the internal byte[] and causes unnecessary buffer allocation and initializaiton (zeroing the buffer).