Github user jerryshao commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1090#issuecomment-46255789
This is the [PR](https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/931) which uses
`ExternalAppendOnlyMap` to do external sort. I think it would be nice to use
ExternalAppendOnlyMap as you guys mentioned before.
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