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Siying Dong commented on HIVE-1738: ----------------------------------- We handle the case for comparing different size because, (for some new codes checked in by Ning, as far as I remember), if map doesn't produce anything for group by, it created a dummy record whose length is 0. Just handle lengh=0 sounds strange, so I made a little bit more general to this way. Comparing from last field is definitely a good idea. It might help a lot in reduce side for multiple key group-by when there are lots of records to reduce. I'll open a new JIRA for it. > Optimize Key Comparison in GroupByOperator > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-1738 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1738 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Siying Dong > Assignee: Siying Dong > Fix For: 0.7.0 > > Attachments: HIVE.1738.1.patch, HIVE.1738.2.patch, HIVE.1738.3.patch > > > GroupByOperator uses ObjectInspectorUtils.compare() to compare keys, which is > written for generalized object comparisons, which is not optimized for > group-by operator. By optimizing this logic, we expect to see obvious > improvements in GroupByOperator. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.