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Gabor Szadovszky commented on PARQUET-2074: ------------------------------------------- [~belugabehr], it sounds good to me but also keep in mind that switching to JDK9 and using its new capabilities would make parqet-mr incompatible with certain environments. Also, this would require a community agreement. I would suggest bringing up this topic in the next parquet sync (Aug 24) and/or start a formal vote in the dev list. > Upgrade to JDK 9+ > ----------------- > > Key: PARQUET-2074 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2074 > Project: Parquet > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: David Mollitor > Priority: Major > > Moving to JDK 9 will provide a plethora of new compares/equals capabilities > on arrays that are all based on vectorization and implement > {{\@IntrinsicCandidate}} > https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)