This is a significant effort that Reynold has undertaken, and I am super glad to see that it's finally taking a concrete form. Would love to see what the community thinks about the idea.
TD On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > Hi Spark devs, > > I've spent the last few months investigating the feasibility of > re-architecting Spark for mobile platforms, considering the growing > population of Android/iOS users. I'm happy to share with you my findings at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6646 > > The tl;dr is that we should support running Spark on Android/iOS, and the > best way to do this at the moment is to use Scala.js to compile Spark code > into JavaScript, and then run it in Safari or Chrome (and even node.js > potentially for servers). > > If you are on your phones right now and prefer reading a blog post rather > than a PDF file, you can read more about the design doc at > > https://databricks.com/blog/2015/04/01/spark-2-rearchitecting-spark-for-mobile.html > > > This is done in collaboration with TD, Xiangrui, Patrick. Look forward to > your feedback! >
