Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/397#issuecomment-40668466
Alright you guys convinced me. Let's close this one for now. When we clean
up the downstream consumers of the byte buffers, we can revisit this (and maybe
do crazier things like reusing byte arrays instead of constantly re-allocating
new ones).
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