These labels are here by analogy with R data.frames where having the labels inside the data is really handy.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote: > > HDFS all nice and safe, and I've got a pile of numeric serialized > > (DistributedRow-)Matrix instances which all use that dictionary, but > don't > > replicate it with them. > > > Makes sense. Of course, if you don't use them, there's no harm, right? > > I'm not against removing them, but it does strike me that we had a pretty > lengthy discussion about them way back when and Ted and Jeff went through a > few iterations to add them in. >
