As an example of where it sometimes doesn't work, in older versions of Kryo / Chill the Joda LocalDate class didn't serialize properly -- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cascalog-user/35cdnNIamKU
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > The main reason is that it doesn't always work (e.g. sometimes application > program has special serialization / externalization written already for > Java which don't work in Kryo). > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Anand Avati <av...@gluster.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Can someone share the reason why Kryo serializer is not the default? Is > > there anything to be careful about (because of which it is not enabled by > > default)? > > Thanks! > > >