We haven't really measured the scala overhead. However, my guess is that it should be small compared to the network overhead, which one has to pay for each request.
Thanks, Jun On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:04 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since kafka is written in scala, when using a java client (producer or > consumer), do you pay a slight performance hit because you guys are > internally mapping back/forth to map a java type to a scala type? >