Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4450#discussion_r27424016
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core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/collection/ChainedBuffer.scala ---
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+package org.apache.spark.util.collection
+
+import java.io.OutputStream
+
+import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer
+
+import org.apache.spark.storage.BlockObjectWriter
+
+/**
+ * A logical byte buffer that wraps a list of byte arrays. All the byte
arrays have equal size. The
+ * advantage of this over a standard ArrayBuffer is that it can grow
without claiming large amounts
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I would maybe say explicitly that the disadvantage is we can't view/return
it as a single large array. Otherwise it's not clear why ArrayBuffer isn't just
implemented this way.
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