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[jira] Updated: (HADOOP-4151) Add a memcmp-compatible interface for key types

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4151?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Chris Douglas updated HADOOP-4151:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Major)

> Add a memcmp-compatible interface for key types
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4151
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4151
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Chris Douglas
>            Assignee: Chris Douglas
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.19.0
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>         Attachments: 4151-0.patch
>
>
> Sometimes it's beneficial to treat types (like BytesWritable and Text) as byte arrays, agnostic to their type. Adding an interface to tag key types as amenable to this treatment can permit optimizations and reuse for that subset of types in tools and libraries.

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