Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1697#issuecomment-50831248
I have some concern (maybe unfounded) about runtime. If we have 50k map
tasks and 10k reduce tasks, this would reduce doing 10k sort, each on 50k items
right?
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