changing map and reduce model

[himanshu chandola <hi...@yahoo.com>]

Hi Ppl,
What would Ive to do to make the following model work for the word count application:
The input is a text file . What I would like to do is that every map task gets a list of lines equal to number of lines/ number of map tasks allowed.

I think its better for the performance of the app, that a map task get a list of records rather than just one record ., so that you save time on starting jvm and the functional overheads.

It seems to me that given that we 

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