Why not? Who said you had to parallelize anything?
On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Jay Vyas <[email protected]> wrote: > i don't think you can't do an embarassingly parallel sort of a randomly > ordered file without merging results. > > However, if you know that the file is psudeoordered: > > 10000123 > 10000232 > 10000000 > 19991019 > 20200222 > 301111111 > 30000000 > > Then you can (maybe) sort the individual blocks in mappers using some black > magic ... but it would be very very ugly > > better off simply running the mappers with the default reducer - they will > sort the file for you naturally :) >
