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Jonathan Coveney commented on PIG-2764:
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Alan, I'm curious why you think managing our own fixed point implementation is
better than just leveraging BigDecimal and BigInteger, and the arbitrary
precision they provide?
I mean, I can benchmark things to see how radical the performance difference
is, but I'm just curious.
> Add a biginteger and bigdecimal type to pig
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> Key: PIG-2764
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2764
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jonathan Coveney
> Assignee: Jonathan Coveney
> Attachments: PIG-2764-0.patch, PIG-2764-1.patch, fixedpoint.patch
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> I think it would be useful for applications where precision is more important
> than speed to have the option of using java's bigdecimal and biginteger types
> natively.
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