Description
Currently if we set mapred.map.output.compression.codec
1. MapTask will compress every spill, decompress every spill, merge and compress the final map output file
2. ReduceTask will decompress, merge and compress every map output file. And repeat the compression/decompression every pass.
This causes all the data being compressed/decompressed many times.
The reason we need mapred.map.output.compression.codec is for network traffic.
We should not compress/decompress the data again and again during merge sort.
We should only compress the final map output file that will be transmitted over the network.