On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:53:30PM -0800, Bryan A. Pendleton wrote: > Remove the combiner configuration, and just use the configured Reducer as a > combiner? I think the functionality is too valuable to entirely remove, if > that's what you're suggesting. Perhaps then it would be worth exposing some > property available to the Reducer.configure call which would specify which > kind of behavior (local "combine", or distributed "reduce"). >
Not all Reducers can necessarily be run on the same data several times. Having them as two separate options (as it is currently) is probably the safest way, in my personal opinion. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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