[jira] Created: (PIG-1017) Converts strings to text in Pig

[Sriranjan Manjunath (JIRA)]

Converts strings to text in Pig
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                 Key: PIG-1017
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1017
             Project: Pig
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Sriranjan Manjunath


Strings in Java are UTF-16 and takes 2 bytes. Text (org.apache.hadoop.io.Text) 
stores the data in UTF-8 and could show significant reductions in memory.

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