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Doug Cutting resolved HADOOP-939.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

Sorting can be disabled by setting the number of reduce tasks to zero, so that 
map outputs are written directly.  Reduce makes no sense without sorting.

> No-sort optimization
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>                 Key: HADOOP-939
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-939
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: mapred
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Doug Judd
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> There should be a way to tell the mapred framework that the output of the 
> map() phase will already be sorted.  The Reduce phase can just merge the 
> intermediate files together without sorting.

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