On 3 Jan 2007, at 16:17, Brian Stansberry wrote:
jbosscache-dev-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org wrote:
> On 28 Dec 2006, at 00:05, Galder Zamarreno wrote:airs here.
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>> Looking a bit deeper with the profiler, I have seen that
>> TreeCacheMarshaller200 takes ages marshalling a map containing
>> string
>> key/value pairs. Is this expected? We're adding quite a few
>> things to
>> a simple String/String map, such as versioning and reference
>> information. Compared to standard writeObject in HashMap,
>> TreeCacheMarshaller200 spends quite a bit of time mantaining/
>> updating a reference map.
>
> It is possible that such a reference map is meaningless in
> the case of writing to a cache loader. It makes sense
> streaming on the wire for an RPC call though. So maybe there
> needs to be an overloaded form of objectTo|FromByteBuffer
> that could disable the ref map?
>
Isn't that map used to ensure only a single copy of a
multiple-referenced object survives serialization? I'd think correct
behavior for that would be critical no matter where it's done.
Good point, forget what I said. :-) This is actually a side-effect
(although a very correct one) - the original intention was to
minimise large objects being duped in a stream.