Github user mateiz commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/156#discussion_r10859640
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala ---
@@ -664,6 +664,24 @@ abstract class RDD[T: ClassTag](
}
/**
+ * Return a Stream that contains all of the elements in this RDD.
+ *
+ * In case of iterating it consumes memory as the biggest partition in
cluster.
+ */
+ def toLocallyIterable: Stream[T] = {
--- End diff --
It's probably better to call this localIterator, and make it return an
Iterator instead of a Stream. Similarly the Java one should return a Java
Iterator. Anyone who needs to get multiple iterators can grab them from this
object multiple times.
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