Improve performance of raw comparisons --------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-7761 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7761 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Components: io, util Affects Versions: 0.23.0 Reporter: Todd Lipcon Assignee: Todd Lipcon Attachments: hadoop-7761.txt Guava has a nice implementation of lexicographical byte-array comparison that uses sun.misc.Unsafe to compare unsigned byte arrays long-at-a-time. Their benchmarks show it as being 2x more CPU-efficient than the equivalent pure-Java implementation. We can easily integrate this into WritableComparator.compareBytes to improve CPU performance in the shuffle. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira