Only aggressive elephants are fast elephants
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Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants
Yellow elephants are slow. A major reason is that they consume their inputs entirely before responding to an elephant rider’s orders. Some clever riders have trained their yellow elephants to only consume parts of the inputs before responding. However, the teaching time to make an elephant do that is high. So high that the teaching lessons often do not pay off. We take a different approach. We ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2150-8097
DOI: 10.14778/2350229.2350272