Github user mxm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/975#issuecomment-128664224
Fabian is right: This is a major change in the computation paradigm of
Flink which can cause all kinds of side effects when executing user-defined
functions on the task manager. If we really implemented something like this we
have to think about it carefully before.
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