Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1499#issuecomment-49949874
Let me know if I've missed something. That combining part happens in
mergeWithAggregation. Actually for many operations map-side combine is disabled
so we don't even do it (and ExternalSorter is not used on the reduce side right
now).
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