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The following page has been changed by OlgaN: http://wiki.apache.org/pig/PigUserCookbook ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ == Performance Enhancers == The following are a list of tips that people have discovered for making their pig queries run faster. Please feel free to add any tips you have. + + ''' Use Types ''' + This feature is only available in the new code currently accessible from types branch: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/pig/branches/types/. + + If types are not specified in the load statement, Pig assumes the type of =double= for numeric computations. A lot of the time, your data would be much smaller, maybe, integer or long. Specifying the real type will help with speed of arithmetic computation. In some of our queries with see 2x speedup. It has an additional advantage of early error detection. + ''' Project Early and Often '''
