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Josh Rosen commented on SPARK-14083: ------------------------------------ Null-handling is going to present a major design challenge here. If we want to exactly preserve the behavior of the Java closure then we need to ensure that our translation does not add implicit null-handling which differs from the JVM's own handling. For example: - What happens today if a user calls .getInt(..) on a column which is null? We need to preserve the current behavior. - What if a user calls .getString(...).equals("foo") on a row where the string column is null? Today the user's code will throw a NullPointerException. To preserve this behavior, we might need to add an expression which throws exceptions on null values. - In Java, casting null to a numeric type returns the zero-value of that type, whereas SQL casts preserve nulls. I think that we don't have a choice but to faithfully preserve Java's null semantics. If we didn't, then subtle differences in Java closures or in compilers' emitted bytecode could alter the result of queries. > Analyze JVM bytecode and turn closures into Catalyst expressions > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SPARK-14083 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14083 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: SQL > Reporter: Reynold Xin > > One big advantage of the Dataset API is the type safety, at the cost of > performance due to heavy reliance on user-defined closures/lambdas. These > closures are typically slower than expressions because we have more > flexibility to optimize expressions (known data types, no virtual function > calls, etc). In many cases, it's actually not going to be very difficult to > look into the byte code of these closures and figure out what they are trying > to do. If we can understand them, then we can turn them directly into > Catalyst expressions for more optimized executions. > Some examples are: > {code} > df.map(_.name) // equivalent to expression col("name") > ds.groupBy(_.gender) // equivalent to expression col("gender") > df.filter(_.age > 18) // equivalent to expression GreaterThan(col("age"), > lit(18) > df.map(_.id + 1) // equivalent to Add(col("age"), lit(1)) > {code} > The goal of this ticket is to design a small framework for byte code analysis > and use that to convert closures/lambdas into Catalyst expressions in order > to speed up Dataset execution. It is a little bit futuristic, but I believe > it is very doable. The framework should be easy to reason about (e.g. similar > to Catalyst). > Note that a big emphasis on "small" and "easy to reason about". A patch > should be rejected if it is too complicated or difficult to reason about. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org