Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1366#issuecomment-48759522
@aarondav, you are totally right. However, the `Aggregate` operator that
this is replacing made the same assumption and this approach will use strictly
less memory.
For the 1.2 release I'd like to focus on external algorithms and hopefully
start using more of sparks built in data structures for this.
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