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Aaron Kimball commented on MAPREDUCE-1126:
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Jay,

Right now Mappers are configured directly by the user, and the InputSplits are 
allocated by the InputFormat. A system that combines the configuration two is 
intriguing, but would represent a pretty big shift in API. I think this is 
something you might want to file as a separate JIRA; this thread has enough 
ideas floating around on it already, and something like that would require its 
own separate discussion.

- Aaron

> shuffle should use serialization to get comparator
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1126
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1126
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: task
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
>            Assignee: Aaron Kimball
>             Fix For: 0.22.0
>
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-1126.2.patch, MAPREDUCE-1126.3.patch, 
> MAPREDUCE-1126.4.patch, MAPREDUCE-1126.5.patch, MAPREDUCE-1126.6.patch, 
> MAPREDUCE-1126.patch, MAPREDUCE-1126.patch
>
>
> Currently the key comparator is defined as a Java class.  Instead we should 
> use the Serialization API to create key comparators.  This would permit, 
> e.g., Avro-based comparators to be used, permitting efficient sorting of 
> complex data types without having to write a RawComparator in Java.

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