[PARQUET-690] [C++] Investigate / improve performance of Thrift utilities

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: cpp-4.0.0
• Component/s: parquet-cpp
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 29/Aug/16 02:21
• Updated: 04/Jan/19 21:17
• Resolved: 04/Jan/19 21:17

Description

We're currently using Thrift serialization / deserialization functions that allocate and deallocate Thrift C++ objects and memory with each invocation. The Impala codebase (and probably others) have some code we can learn from to be a bit more efficient:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-impala/blob/master/be/src/rpc/thrift-util.h#L42

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3268