Github user aarondav commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1332#issuecomment-48373597
This loses the synchronization guarantees we had before -- without
synchronized or volatile, there are no cross-thread guarantees. Is this OK?
(By the way, how is newInstance() used?)
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