basho/riak-java-client — pull request #257 by guidomedina (2013-07-03 16:36:15+00:00)
Title: Object mapper should read directly from bytes

Object mapper should perform faster if read from bytes without converting JSON to String, please check implications of doing so if original value had a weird char encoding, reading directly from Bytes doesn't specify any char encoding.

It should be faster if doesn't need encoding. Since writing from domain uses Bytes, why not read the same way?