Describe the enhancement requested

PlainValuesReader (used for PLAIN-encoded INT32, INT64, FLOAT, and DOUBLE columns) currently
reads each value through a LittleEndianDataInputStream wrapper around a ByteBufferInputStream.
Per value, readInt() performs 4 separate virtual in.read() calls and manually reassembles the
result with bit shifts:

public final int readInt() throws IOException {
    int ch4 = in.read();
    int ch3 = in.read();
    int ch2 = in.read();
    int ch1 = in.read();
    if ((ch1 | ch2 | ch3 | ch4) < 0) throw new EOFException();
    return ((ch1 << 24) + (ch2 << 16) + (ch3 << 8) + (ch4 << 0));
}

The LittleEndianDataInputStream.readInt() method itself carries a TODO comment from years ago
suggesting exactly this kind of replacement (a ByteBuffer-backed implementation).

Proposal

In PlainValuesReader.initFromPage(), obtain the page data as a single contiguous ByteBuffer
via stream.slice(stream.available()) with ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN, and call the corresponding
ByteBuffer accessor directly per value:

• readInteger() → buffer.getInt()
• readLong() → buffer.getLong()
• readFloat() → buffer.getFloat()
• readDouble() → buffer.getDouble()
• skip(n) → buffer.position(buffer.position() + n * typeSize)

ByteBuffer.getInt() with the appropriate byte order is a HotSpot intrinsic that compiles to a
single unaligned load instruction on x86/ARM — no virtual dispatch, no per-byte assembly, no
checked IOException on the per-value path.

ByteBufferInputStream.slice() already handles both single-buffer (zero-copy view) and
multi-buffer (single contiguous copy) cases transparently. In practice page data is almost
always a single contiguous buffer.

Benchmark results

IntEncodingBenchmark.decodePlain (100,000 INT32 values per invocation, JMH -wi 3 -i 5 -f 1):

The speedup is consistent across data patterns because the bottleneck is entirely in the
per-value dispatch overhead, not the data itself. All four numeric plain reader types
(int, long, float, double) benefit equally.

End-to-end on ReadBenchmarks.readFile (6-column schema, 100k rows), this contributes to the
overall read-path improvement of 5–10% measured when combined with related decode optimizations.

Side effects

After this change, LittleEndianDataInputStream has no remaining production usages in the
codebase — only one test reference (TestColumnChunkPageWriteStore) and two TODO comments.
A follow-up could remove or deprecate the class.

Validation

All 573 parquet-column tests pass with the change applied.

Component(s)

Core