Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/624#discussion_r9958856 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/collection/ExternalAppendOnlyMap.scala --- @@ -323,13 +327,12 @@ private[spark] class ExternalAppendOnlyMap[K, V, C]( private case class StreamBuffer(iterator: Iterator[(K, C)], pairs: ArrayBuffer[(K, C)]) extends Comparable[StreamBuffer] { - def minKeyHash: Int = { - if (pairs.length > 0){ - // pairs are already sorted by key hash - pairs(0)._1.hashCode() - } else { - Int.MaxValue - } + def isEmpty = pairs.isEmpty + + // Invalid if there are no more pairs in this stream --- End diff -- nit: but maybe put this comment above the assert line rather than the function?
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