Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1415#issuecomment-49090832
@rxin IIRC at one point we changed this before and it caused a performance
regression for our perf suite so we reverted it. At the time I think we were
running on smaller data sets though. Maybe in this case were are willing to
take a hit?
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