Github user aljoscha commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2729
The problem is that this doesn't even work if the user correctly implements
a thread safe UDF. If the UDF is an object then things such as the
`RuntimeContext` will be the same for different subtasks because there is only
one instance of the UDF.
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