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Jie Li commented on PIG-483:
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Ooops, forgot that the sample job will always use 1 reducer instead of the 
estimated #reducer, so we don't have the information to decide whether to skip 
it.

One option is to add a field in MapReduceOper to store the estimated #reducer?
                
> PERFORMANCE: different strategies for large and small order bys
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-483
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-483
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.2.0
>            Reporter: Olga Natkovich
>              Labels: gsoc2011, performance
>         Attachments: PIG-483.0.patch
>
>
> Currently pig always does a multi-pass order by where it first determines a 
> distribution for the keys and then orders in a second pass.  This avoids the 
> necessity of having a single reducer.  However, in cases where the data is 
> small enough to fit into a single reducer, this is inefficient.  For small 
> data sets it would be good to realize the small size of the set and do the 
> order by in a single pass with a single reducer.
> This is a candidate project for Google summer of code 2011. More information 
> about the program can be found at http://wiki.apache.org/pig/GSoc2011

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