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ASF GitHub Bot commented on MAHOUT-1573:
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Github user tdunning commented on the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/mahout/pull/13#issuecomment-46396097
  
    Yes.  
    
    But I was talking about the gratuitous use of non-alpha characters. 
Excessive use of operator overloading is also a bit of a problem. 
    
    Just because you can doesn't mean you should. 
    
    Sent from my iPhone
    
    > On Jun 17, 2014, at 17:58, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> 
wrote:
    > 
    > e.g. one can write things like A.t.%*%(A).exact_||(100)
    > 
    > —
    > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.


> More explicit parallelism adjustments in math-scala DRM apis; elements of 
> automatic re-adjustments
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAHOUT-1573
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1573
>             Project: Mahout
>          Issue Type: Task
>    Affects Versions: 0.9
>            Reporter: Dmitriy Lyubimov
>            Assignee: Dmitriy Lyubimov
>             Fix For: 1.0
>
>
> (1) add minSplit parameter pass-thru to drmFromHDFS to be able to explicitly 
> increase parallelism. 
> (2) add parrallelism readjustment parameter to a checkpoint() call. This 
> implies shuffle-less coalesce() translation to the data set before it is 
> requested to be cached (if specified).
> Going forward, we probably should try and figure how we can automate it,  at 
> least a little bit. For example, the simplest automatic adjustment might 
> include re-adjust parallelims on load to simply fit cluster size (95% or 180% 
> of cluster size, for example), with some rule-of-thumb safeguards here, e.g. 
> we cannot exceed a factor of say 8 (or whatever we configure) in splitting 
> each original hdfs split. We should be able to get a reasonable parallelism 
> performance out of the box on simple heuristics like that.



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