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Wilfred Spiegelenburg updated HADOOP-11323:
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Assignee: Wilfred Spiegelenburg
Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> WritableComparator: default implementation of compare keeps reference to byte
> array
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> Key: HADOOP-11323
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11323
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: performance
> Affects Versions: 2.5.0
> Reporter: Wilfred Spiegelenburg
> Assignee: Wilfred Spiegelenburg
> Attachments: HADOOP-11323.patch
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> When the default compare is used on a WritableComparator a reference to the
> second passed in byte array is kept in the buffer. Since WritableComparator
> keeps a reference to the buffer the byte will never be garbage collected.
> This can lead to a higher heap use than needed.
> The buffer should drop the reference to the byte array passed in. We can null
> out the byte array reference since the buffer is a private variable for the
> class.
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