Github user greghogan commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1626#issuecomment-183389185 `MergeIterator.next(reuse)` should allow object swapping. The source code documentation should be improved to make this clearer, but this contract is necessary to minimize the copying of objects
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