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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 17:48:42 -0700
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Subject: Re: avro object reuse
From: Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com> wrote=
:
> It would be useful to get a 'jmap -histo:live' report as well, which will
> only have items that remain after a full GC.
>
> However, a high churn of short lived Jackson objects is not expected here
> unless the user is reading Json serialized files and not Avro binary.
> Avro Data Files only contain binary encoded Avro content.
>
> It would be surprising to see many Jackson objects here if reading Avro
> Data Files, because we expect to use Jackson to parse an Avro schema from
> json only once or twice per file. =A0After the schema is parsed, Jackson
> shouldn't be used. =A0 A hundred thousand DeserializationConfig instances
> means that isn't the case.

Right -- it indicates that something (else) is using Jackson; and
there will typically be one instance of DeserializationConfig for each
data-binding call (ObjectMapper.readValue()), as a read-only copy is
made for operation.
... or if something is reading schema that many times, that sounds
like a problem in itself.

-+ Tatu +-