Github user tdas commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/126#discussion_r10552625
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core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/TimeStampedWeakValueHashMap.scala ---
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+package org.apache.spark.util
+
+import scala.collection.{JavaConversions, immutable}
+
+import java.util
+import java.lang.ref.WeakReference
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap
+
+import org.apache.spark.Logging
+
+private[util] case class TimeStampedWeakValue[T](timestamp: Long,
weakValue: WeakReference[T]) {
+ def this(timestamp: Long, value: T) = this(timestamp, new
WeakReference[T](value))
+}
+
+/**
+ * A map that stores the timestamp of when a key was inserted along with
the value,
+ * while ensuring that the values are weakly referenced. If the value is
garbage collected and
+ * the weak reference is null, get() operation returns the key be
non-existent. However,
+ * the key is actually not removed in the current implementation.
Key-value pairs whose
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@marmbrus I thought about it, but thats tricky. Here the values are weak
refs. So with a reference queue you can get which values were out of scope but
not sure how to get the corresponding keys. And we need the keys to cleanup.
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