Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1004#issuecomment-45421512
I'm going to merge this. YOu can test this easily by looking at the log.
Spark tells you the size of the task closure and how long it takes to serialize
each of them in the info log.
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