Hi ! I was asking myself if it could be a good idea to parallelize some of the alogorithms of Hadoop, such as MergeSorter, for the case a single job of run on a multicore system. If so, I would like to propose a patch that do it, by adding a parameter like io.sort.parallelism. If the number of sorting threads is less than this value, Hadoop will start more than one thread.
Thanks Brice
