Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-flink/pull/254#issuecomment-66343219
Tagging buffers in the memory segment as "data frames" vs "serialized
events" seems dangerous. If someone uses the `BufferWriter` interface directly,
they need to adhere to the contract of using the first byte as the tag.
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