Folks,
I am wondering why Spark uses ClassTag in RDD[T: ClassTag] instead of the
more functional TypeTag option.
I have some code that needs TypeTag functionality and I don't know if a
typeTag can be converted to a classTag.
Mohit.
TypeTags are unfortunately not thread-safe in Scala 2.10. They were still
somewhat experimental at the time so we decided not to use them. If you want
though, you can probably design other APIs that pass a TypeTag around (e.g.
make a method that takes an RDD[T] but also requires an implicit
