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Alan Gates commented on PIG-1017:
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Are we really going to do this? I doubt it now, as the backward
incompatibility cost would be so high. At the very least I don't think we'll
do it for 0.9.
> 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
> Assignee: Sriranjan Manjunath
> Fix For: 0.9.0
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> Attachments: stotext.patch
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> 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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