[jira] Commented: (PIG-8) Use binary comparison in data types

["Alan Gates (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Alan Gates commented on PIG-8:
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+1

Reviewed the code, it looks fine.

> Use binary comparison in data types
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-8
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-8
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: impl
>            Reporter: Olga Natkovich
>            Assignee: Olga Natkovich
>         Attachments: BinaryCompare.patch
>
>
> Currently, each data type in Pig has compareTo function as the means to compare objects during maps side sort. This is very inefficient since 2 objects need to be created for each comparison. Using binary comparison should speed things up significantly(2-3x) for most queries.

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