Github user greghogan commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2490 This isn't improving performance but moving the null checks before first access and removing the duplicate `DataSet` references.
--- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---