Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1004#issuecomment-45421535
One reason we had to add @transient lazy val is due to the lack of an init
method on each partition for operators. I think there are benefits of adding
that - it makes clear and explicit about object initialization, and then you
can probably avoid this problem.
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