Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1091#issuecomment-46405754
Thanks for working on this, @ScrapCodes. I talked with Matei and while we
both agree compression would be better set in per-RDD basis, adding another
boolean flag to StorageLevel is not ideal.
Matei suggested deferring this and we will come up with a proper design
later.
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We should come up with a proper design for this. I think one viable design
is to make StorageLevel get constructed via a builder pattern. More generally
in the future Iâd like to have something called StorageStrategy that can also
convert the data into a format (e.g. columnar or something). Kind of like
including a serializer in the storage level.
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