Github user aarondav commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1327#issuecomment-48560796 Honestly, I like this change, because it's generally good practice to minimize the amount of work done inside constructors. We should consider making it as part of the shuffle consolidation fixes patch @mridulm mentioned, even if the Writer is not intended to be reused. (Can't wait to see that patch, by the way!)
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