Re: Use text vs binary output for speed?

[Owen O'Malley]

On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Mark Kerzner wrote:

SequenceFileOutputFormat write is known to be slow.

It isn't known to be slow.

Would it help if I

convert the binary content to text, with something like Base64 encoding, and

use that?

It would be much slower.

-- Owen