This is a subtle and clever point. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Michael Dalton <mwdal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Avro avoids deserialization when sorting their data, but they use custom > byte array comparators for different types. All of our encodings, including > struct/record types, actually sort if you just compare the raw bytes using > Bytes.compareTo.