Github user srowen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14762#discussion_r77308494 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/compression/CompressibleColumnBuilder.scala --- @@ -61,8 +63,12 @@ private[columnar] trait CompressibleColumnBuilder[T <: AtomicType] super.initialize(initialSize, columnName, useCompression) } + // The various compression schemes, while saving memory use, cause all of the data within + // the row to become unaligned, thus causing crashes. Until a way of fixing the compression + // is found to also allow aligned accesses this must be disabled for SPARC. + protected def isWorthCompressing(encoder: Encoder[T]) = { - encoder.compressionRatio < 0.8 + encoder.compressionRatio < 0.8 && !misalignedArch.contains(System.getProperty("os.arch")) --- End diff -- No, just write `val misalignedArch = Set("sparc", "sparcv9").contains(System.getProperty("os_arch")` above, then refer to this boolean flag. Doesn't have to be more complex than that.
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