Is Avro Efficient for deepCopy
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mcschatz
In the reducer, we often need to make copies of objects since the iterator over values reuses the same instances.
The Builder API in avro has some inefficiencies see:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-985
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-989
we should check whether this affects us and whether we can do anything to improve performance.