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Olga Natkovich commented on PIG-1017: ------------------------------------- L9 is still slower - any idea why? Also, before we can commit these changes, we need to make sure that all piggybank functions are converted if they use string. We also need to provide update for the UDF manual changes. > Converts strings to text in Pig > ------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-1017 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1017 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Sriranjan Manjunath > > Strings in Java are UTF-16 and takes 2 bytes. Text > (org.apache.hadoop.io.Text) stores the data in UTF-8 and could show > significant reductions in memory. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.