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Chris Douglas commented on HADOOP-5494:
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> IFile.Reader should have a nextRawKey/nextRawValue
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> Key: HADOOP-5494
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5494
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred
> Affects Versions: 0.18.0
> Reporter: Devaraj Das
> Assignee: Devaraj Das
> Fix For: 0.21.0
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> Attachments: 5494-1.patch, 5494-2.patch, 5494-3.patch, 5494-4.patch
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> Merger.Segment has only the next() method defined which internally calls
> next(key,value) on the underlying IFile stream. This would read both the key
> and the value bytes. It would be good to have Merger.Segment.nextRawKey(),
> that would read only the key and delay reading the value until needed (in
> Merger.MergeQueue.next()) via a new method Merger.Segment.nextRawValue().
> This would mean that we load only one value bytes at a time, and hence would
> incur potentially much less (depending on how big the values are) on the
> memory footprint.
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