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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+#include <iostream>
+#include <cmath>
+#include <transport/TBufferTransports.h>
+#include <protocol/TBinaryProtocol.h>
+#include <protocol/TJSONProtocol.h>
+#include "gen-cpp/DebugProtoTest_types.h"
+#include <time.h>
+#include "../lib/cpp/src/protocol/TDebugProtocol.h"
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+class Timer {
+public:
+  timeval vStart;
+
+  Timer() {
+    gettimeofday(&vStart, 0);
+  }
+  void start() {
+    gettimeofday(&vStart, 0);
+  }
+
+  double frame() {
+    timeval vEnd;
+    gettimeofday(&vEnd, 0);
+    double dstart = vStart.tv_sec + ((double)vStart.tv_usec / 1000000.0);
+    double dend = vEnd.tv_sec + ((double)vEnd.tv_usec / 1000000.0);
+    return dend - dstart;
+  }
+
+};
+
+int main() {
+  using namespace std;
+  using namespace thrift::test::debug;
+  using namespace apache::thrift::transport;
+  using namespace apache::thrift::protocol;
+  using namespace boost;
+
+  OneOfEach ooe;
+  ooe.im_true   = true;
+  ooe.im_false  = false;
+  ooe.a_bite    = 0xd6;
+  ooe.integer16 = 27000;
+  ooe.integer32 = 1<<24;
+  ooe.integer64 = (uint64_t)6000 * 1000 * 1000;
+  ooe.double_precision = M_PI;
+  ooe.some_characters  = "JSON THIS! \"\1";
+  ooe.zomg_unicode     = "\xd7\n\a\t";
+  ooe.base64 = "\1\2\3\255";
+
+  shared_ptr<TMemoryBuffer> buf(new TMemoryBuffer());
+
+  int num = 1000000;
+
+  {
+    Timer timer;
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < num; i ++) {
+      buf->resetBuffer();
+      TBinaryProtocol prot(buf);
+      ooe.write(&prot);
+    }
+    cout << "Write: " << num / (1000 * timer.frame()) << " kHz" << endl;
+  }
+
+  uint8_t* data;
+  uint32_t datasize;
+
+  buf->getBuffer(&data, &datasize);
+
+  {
+
+    Timer timer;
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < num; i ++) {
+      OneOfEach ooe2;
+      shared_ptr<TMemoryBuffer> buf2(new TMemoryBuffer(data, datasize));
+      //buf2->resetBuffer(data, datasize);
+      TBinaryProtocol prot(buf2);
+      ooe2.read(&prot);
+
+      //cout << apache::thrift::ThriftDebugString(ooe2) << endl << endl;
+    }
+    cout << " Read: " << num / (1000 * timer.frame()) << " kHz" << endl;
+  }
+
+
+  return 0;
+}