What version of Pig are you using? Unreasonably long parse times were in issue in Pig 0.9 and 0.10, I believe those issues were fixed in Pig 0.11.
Alan. On Mar 28, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Patrick Salami wrote: > We have some very long pig scripts that run several times per day. We > believe that the script parsing process takes very long (about 1h). During > this time, the pig command just hangs before any output is displayed (I am > assuming this is the parsing phase). My question is, can this process be > optimized by somehow serializing the intermediate parsed script to disk > after the parsing phase is complete so that we don't have to go through the > parsing process each time the script is run (so long as the script itself > does not change)? That way, we could then load and run the parsed > representation of the script rather than re-parsing it for each run. Since > this is probably not a readily-available feature, could someone please > point me to the right place in the code where this intermediate output can > be intercepted? > > Thanks!
