Support addAll(Collection<byte[]>) for better performance with small records

[roytmana]

I use tape to queue up very small objects (IDs of 24 bytes). They come one by one or in batches of anywhere from 2 to 100 at a time averaging 10 at a time (I have a blocking queue on top of the tape with many producers and one consumer) so performance I am getting is not very good due to constant IO disk sync. It would improve dramatically if tape supported addAll(Collection<byte[]>) in addition to simple add(byte[]) as it would mean just one sync instead of current 10 for me.

Is there any chance it could be added to 2.0?

[f2prateek]

I think I would be open to this! I don't have my own use case for this, but it seems like a reasonable request.

[roytmana]

@f2prateek great thank you - looking forward to this improvement :-)