Github user cloud-fan commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13680
null bits won't take a lot of memory(1 bit per element), and having the
`all zero in null bits?` flag will slow down elements retrievement: we need an
extra if branch to check this flag, and make the format more complex. I'd like
to always have the null bits region, cc @davies
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