InnoDB is frequently allocating and deallocating memory during simple operations, such as INSERT or UPDATE. It should be more efficient to use a single mem_heap_t for the whole row operation, maybe row_prebuilt_t::heap. Maybe some dynamic allocations could be avoided altogether. Perhaps we could use one or two preallocated buffers for rec_get_offsets(), possibly in btr_cur_t or page_cur_t, and avoid repeated calls to rec_get_offsets().