Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/397#issuecomment-40316654
Eh the other reason fastutil implements the FastByteArrayOutputStream
without subclassing ByteArrayOutputStream was to get rid of the synchronized
writes. To do this properly, we should probably benchmark every corner case to
see how well the jvm can do away with the lock that is always running in a
single threaded mode. However, we are not adding much code anyway so I think
this is good as is.
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