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Jeff Hammerbacher commented on PIG-979: --------------------------------------- One could also cite the SOSP paper from MSR this year comparing the iterator to the accumulator interface, though I have a hard time concisely stating their conclusions: http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/yu-sosp09.pdf. > Acummulator Interface for UDFs > ------------------------------ > > Key: PIG-979 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-979 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Alan Gates > Assignee: Ying He > > Add an accumulator interface for UDFs that would allow them to take a set > number of records at a time instead of the entire bag. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.