Ah righty -- this exists in the old API doesn't it... even in 0.20.x But it's deprecated. But it's not deprecated in 0.21+.
Yes I think there's a strong argument to make use of that even if it is deprecated. I had in mind the unnecessary use of old .mapred. APIs for simple Mappers and Reducers. On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote: > Wait, are you saying that we should force things like matrix multiplication > to become a 3-job process, instead of the current 1-job process? > > I thought we've already discussed and decided that moving to 0.20 APIs > where possible should be done, but where it removes functionality and > efficiency, we would allow the old API? > > -jake >
