Github user mengxr commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1427#issuecomment-49123056
Actually the JIRA is for auto-switching between direct serialization and
broadcast. It would be nice to implement it in `sc.broadcast` instead of
specific to MLlib.
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