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Pete Wyckoff commented on HADOOP-3315:
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Why did you write your own variable length integer encoding? is this superior
to protocolbuffers encoding?it seems like writing your own encoding/decoding
format makes it harder for people to implement this in other languages, no?
> New binary file format
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> Key: HADOOP-3315
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3315
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: io
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
> Assignee: Amir Youssefi
> Attachments: HADOOP-3315_TFILE_PREVIEW.patch,
> HADOOP-3315_TFILE_PREVIEW_WITH_LZO_TESTS.patch, TFile Specification Final.pdf
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> SequenceFile's block compression format is too complex and requires 4 codecs
> to compress or decompress. It would be good to have a file format that only
> needs
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