Ravi Prakash created HDFS-4498:
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Summary: Investigate possible performance benefits by using
protobuf option optimize_for = SPEED
Key: HDFS-4498
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4498
Project: Hadoop HDFS
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.0.3-alpha, 0.23.6
Reporter: Ravi Prakash
The default is to optimize for code size :
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/protobuf/OtL7Bb4NiRI
Has anyone ever investigated how much effort protobuf de/serialization takes
and whether it would make a difference if we used this option? In benchmarks,
the options seems to make a huge difference:
http://www.eishay.com/2008/11/protobuf-with-option-optimize-for-speed.html
http://code.google.com/p/thrift-protobuf-compare/wiki/Benchmarking
I don't plan to take this up, so if anybody else does, please feel free
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