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Gyula Fora commented on FLINK-2281: ----------------------------------- After a second thought, this will introduce a very large complexity to the record readers and also to the FT implementation, I am closing this issue for now. > Allow chaining of operators with multiple inputs > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-2281 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2281 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Streaming > Reporter: Gyula Fora > Assignee: Gyula Fora > Priority: Minor > > Currently only operators with one input can be chained for better > performance. In principle there is no reason why this should not be extended > to multiple input operators (where chaining is applicable, i.e forward > connected), to allow maximal speedup. > The concern usually arises that it might not be good to always chain > everything in case of computation heavy operators. In these cases (if the job > is otherwise viable) chaining only increases latency for some operations > while the throughput is increased exploiting by increasing the parallelism to > the freed resources. > In any case chaining should still remain tunable on an operator level. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)