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Andrzej Bialecki  commented on HADOOP-287:
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What is the status of this patch? I'm running with relatively slow disks, and I 
could sure use a 30% improvement in sorting time ... ;)

> Speed up SequenceFile sort with memory reduction
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-287
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-287
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: io
>    Affects Versions: 0.3.2
>            Reporter: Benjamin Reed
>         Assigned To: Doug Cutting
>         Attachments: zoom-sort.patch, zoom-sort.patch
>
>
> I replaced the merge sort with a quick sort and it yielded approx 30% 
> improvement in sort time. It also reduced the memory requirement for sorting 
> because the sort is done in place.

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