Re: Is pipes really supposed to be a serious API? Is it being actively developed?

2008-09-20 Thread Owen O'Malley
I'm sorry that your questions haven't been answered. Pipes is used extensively at Yahoo to build the Webmap, which is the graph of the entire web. You can now set counters in pipes, but mostly it has just been working for Yahoo. It isn't expected to perform better the java api, because all

Re: Is pipes really supposed to be a serious API? Is it being actively developed?

2008-09-19 Thread Alex Feinberg
Hi Marc, I have myself personally used pipes, but I found it's performance wasn't faster than Java (on the same issue). I also found a lack of documentation (e.g. I saw nothing about xdr). What I'd like to see is an example where you're using pipes to pass a struct from a mapper to a reducer usin

Re: Is pipes really supposed to be a serious API? Is it being actively developed?

2008-09-19 Thread David Richards
I've had the same problem, when wanting to integrate pipes into my system. I haven't seen serious support/comment on pipes, so I'm seeing if I can steer clear of this. Maybe this is a wakeup call to see if we've both missed something. David On Sep 19, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Marc Vaillant wr

Is pipes really supposed to be a serious API? Is it being actively developed?

2008-09-19 Thread Marc Vaillant
Only about 5 pipes/c++ related posts since mid July, and basically no responses. Is anyone really using or actively developing pipes? We've invested some time to make it platform independent (ported bsd sockets to boost sockets, and the xdr serialization to boost serialization), but it's still la