On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Fabio Forno<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Paul Davis<[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> By default, reduce output must be less than half the size of it's
>> input when. Input and output data sizes are measured by the length of
>> their serialized JSON representations. This check is only made when
>> the length of the serialized output is greater than 200 characters.
>>
>
> Why less then half? Suppose I must merge two docs A,B where I'm
> counting the occurrences of a set of items ans size(A) >> size(B),
> size(out) would be less than size(input), but more than half of it
>

Really the requirement should be less than 1/10th or so (decrease at
roughly log(N) rate) but I put in 1/2 because it's just a rough rubric
to catch the worst offenders.

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