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Jay Kreps reassigned KAFKA-527:
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Assignee: Jay Kreps (was: Yasuhiro Matsuda)
> Compression support does numerous byte copies
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> Key: KAFKA-527
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-527
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: compression
> Reporter: Jay Kreps
> Assignee: Jay Kreps
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: KAFKA-527.message-copy.history, KAFKA-527.patch,
> java.hprof.no-compression.txt, java.hprof.snappy.text
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> The data path for compressing or decompressing messages is extremely
> inefficient. We do something like 7 (?) complete copies of the data, often
> for simple things like adding a 4 byte size to the front. I am not sure how
> this went by unnoticed.
> This is likely the root cause of the performance issues we saw in doing bulk
> recompression of data in mirror maker.
> The mismatch between the InputStream and OutputStream interfaces and the
> Message/MessageSet interfaces which are based on byte buffers is the cause of
> many of these.
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