Github user mateiz commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/156#discussion_r10859655
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala ---
@@ -664,6 +664,24 @@ abstract class RDD[T: ClassTag](
}
/**
+ * Return a Stream that contains all of the elements in this RDD.
+ *
+ * In case of iterating it consumes memory as the biggest partition in
cluster.
+ */
+ def toLocallyIterable: Stream[T] = {
--- End diff --
BTW this is unless you have some use case in mind that explicitly needs
Iterable instead of Iterator.. I'd like to hear about that. But even in that
case the Scala API should return Iterable, not Stream.
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