I am a protocol buffer newbie. I have inherited a performance-critical application that reads some high-volume data streams that are coded in protocol buffer format.
byte[] org.google.protobuf.CodedInputStream.readRawBytes(int size) allocates a new byte[size] from the heap on every call. I want to avoid this heap allocation. There is no method that allows one to pass in their own byte[] buf to avoid allocating a new byte[size] from a the heap on each invocation. In addition, the class is declared final ... which prevents one from deriving a subclass and implementing readRawBytes(int size, byte[] buf) This prevents me from adding this "heap friendly" change without cloning & modifying the source code. Q: Am I missing something? Q: What was the thinking/rationale behind these design decisions? Thanks, Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
