[THRIFT-1485] Performance: pass large and/or refcounted arguments as "const"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9
• Component/s: Delphi - Compiler, Delphi - Library
• Labels: performance
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Jens Geyer
• Reporter: Jens Geyer
• Created: 06/Jan/12 21:41
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 08/Jan/12 21:49

Description

Input arguments to functions should be passed using const in the following cases

• the argument size exceeds the size of a pointer = 32 bit
• the argument is an refcounted type, like interface pointers, or long string types

This patch adds the necessary changes to compiler, library and test code.

Issue Links

• depends upon: THRIFT-1473 JSON context stack may be left in an incorrect state when an exception is thrown during read or write operations