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Andrzej Bialecki  updated HADOOP-850:
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    Attachment:     (was: variable-ints.patch)

> Add Writable implementations for variable-length integer types.
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-850
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-850
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: io
>    Affects Versions: 0.10.0
>            Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki 
>         Assigned To: Andrzej Bialecki 
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.10.0
>
>
> Currently Hadoop supports only three basic integer-like types: ByteWritable, 
> IntWritable and LongWritable. They provide a fixed tradeoff between their 
> value range and on-disk space consumption. But it is sometimes useful to be 
> able to store integer values with broader allowed range, but less space 
> consumption when possible.
> This is especially useful when storing very long series of  values, combined 
> with delta encoding.
> Lucene already implements variable-length encoding for positive int and long. 
> I propose to add similar Writable implementations, which use the same 
> encoding methods.

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