Github user srowen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/9243#issuecomment-150939010 The motivation here is not just memory, but (secondarily) avoiding the outstanding Kryo serialization problem and simplifying the build. The explanations here all make sense, but the question is, does this change reduce memory consumption or not? The assertion is that it does by about 20% and I'm not clear if we're arguing that doesn't make sense or not. I am not sure I'd expect the set of non-empty blocks to be sparse? so maybe it does. If it doesn't obviously change memory consumption either way, then it's still a win. I still don't get why the test is timing out though.
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