I kind of dig the concept of being able to plug in a different backend,
though I definitely thing we should get rid of the dead localmode code. Can
you give an example of how this will simplify the codebase? Is it more than
just GenericClass foo = new SpecificClass(), and the associated extra files?

-D

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Arun C Murthy <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1
>
> Arun
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Richard Ding wrote:
>
>  Pig has an abstraction layer (interfaces and abstract classes) to
>> support multiple execution engines. After PIG-1053, Hadoop is the only
>> execution engine supported by Pig. I wonder if we should remove this
>> layer of code, and make Hadoop THE execution engine for Pig. This will
>> simplify a lot the backend code.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Richard
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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