diff --git a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java
index ef6c71bc86..baf7109836 100644
--- a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java
+++ b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ public class LittleEndianDataOutputStream extends OutputStream {
 
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LittleEndianDataOutputStream.class);
   private final OutputStream out;
+  private byte writeBuffer[] = new byte[8];
 
   /**
    * Creates a new data output stream to write data to the specified
@@ -130,8 +131,9 @@ public final void writeByte(int v) throws IOException {
    * @see java.io.FilterOutputStream#out
    */
   public final void writeShort(int v) throws IOException {
-    out.write((v >>> 0) & 0xFF);
-    out.write((v >>> 8) & 0xFF);
+    writeBuffer[0] = (byte) (v >>> 0);
+    writeBuffer[1] = (byte) (v >>> 8);
+    out.write(writeBuffer, 0, 2);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -144,17 +146,13 @@ public final void writeShort(int v) throws IOException {
    * @see java.io.FilterOutputStream#out
    */
   public final void writeInt(int v) throws IOException {
-    // TODO: see note in LittleEndianDataInputStream: maybe faster
-    // to use Integer.reverseBytes() and then writeInt, or a ByteBuffer
-    // approach
-    out.write((v >>> 0) & 0xFF);
-    out.write((v >>> 8) & 0xFF);
-    out.write((v >>> 16) & 0xFF);
-    out.write((v >>> 24) & 0xFF);
+    writeBuffer[0] = (byte) (v >>> 0);
+    writeBuffer[1] = (byte) (v >>> 8);
+    writeBuffer[2] = (byte) (v >>> 16);
+    writeBuffer[3] = (byte) (v >>> 24);
+    out.write(writeBuffer, 0, 4);
   }
 
-  private byte writeBuffer[] = new byte[8];
-
   /**
    * Writes a <code>long</code> to the underlying output stream as eight
    * bytes, low byte first. In no exception is thrown, the counter