maropu commented on a change in pull request #29654:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/29654#discussion_r485262885



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File path: 
sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/compression/compressionSchemes.scala
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@@ -182,29 +181,29 @@ private[columnar] case object RunLengthEncoding extends 
CompressionScheme {
     private var _uncompressedSize = 0
     private var _compressedSize = 0
 
-    // Using `MutableRow` to store the last value to avoid boxing/unboxing 
cost.
-    private val lastValue = new SpecificInternalRow(Seq(columnType.dataType))
+    private var lastValue: T#InternalType = _
     private var lastRun = 0
 
     override def uncompressedSize: Int = _uncompressedSize
 
     override def compressedSize: Int = _compressedSize
 
+
     override def gatherCompressibilityStats(row: InternalRow, ordinal: Int): 
Unit = {
       val value = columnType.getField(row, ordinal)
       val actualSize = columnType.actualSize(row, ordinal)
       _uncompressedSize += actualSize
 
-      if (lastValue.isNullAt(0)) {
-        columnType.copyField(row, ordinal, lastValue, 0)
+      if (lastValue == null) {
+        lastValue = columnType.clone(columnType.getField(row, ordinal))
         lastRun = 1
         _compressedSize += actualSize + 4
       } else {
-        if (columnType.getField(lastValue, 0) == value) {
+        if (lastValue == value) {

Review comment:
       Could we get actual performance differences by this change? Did you run 
microbenchmarks to check them?




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