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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 14:38:43 -0800
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On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Koert Kuipers <koert@tresata.com> wrote:

> hey st.ack
>
> well i am considering creating lots of deletes from a map-reduce job
> instead of puts, and was looking at the code to see how efficient that
> would be...
>
>

You  have been writing code for a while (smile)?


> but now i am more generally wondering if there is any downside to making
> all these operations go into the buffer instead of treating puts special.
>
>
I'm not sure I understand the question.  If you are asking if doing mass
individual deletes of cells is to be avoided, the answer is yes.  But maybe
I have you wrong?

St.Ack

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