Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1562#issuecomment-50279680
I think it's fine to make it random. Actually it would be better to do
something like `idx | (rdd.id << 16)` to have them overlap in fewer bits, since
both `idx` and `rdd.id` are small numbers.
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