o.a.h.io.Text - setCapacity does not shrink size
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Key: HADOOP-6476
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6476
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Kay Kay
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote:
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> On Dec 30, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Kay Kay wrote:
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> In o.a.h.io.Text - the clear method currently just resets length to 0,
>> while not doing anything about the bytes internally.
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>> Curious to know the thoughts behind the decision (to le
On Jan 1, 2010, at 2:39 AM, Kay Kay wrote:
I believe that behavior would be surprising to the user if they were
expecting the object resources to be released entirely, by calling the
clear() method.
I disagree. Clear only promises to reset to the empty string. It
doesn't imply freeing reso
