Github user viirya commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/15041#discussion_r79416925 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/collection/Utils.scala --- @@ -30,10 +34,22 @@ private[spark] object Utils { * Returns the first K elements from the input as defined by the specified implicit Ordering[T] * and maintains the ordering. */ - def takeOrdered[T](input: Iterator[T], num: Int)(implicit ord: Ordering[T]): Iterator[T] = { - val ordering = new GuavaOrdering[T] { - override def compare(l: T, r: T): Int = ord.compare(l, r) + def takeOrdered[T](input: Iterator[T], num: Int, + ser: Serializer = SparkEnv.get.serializer)(implicit ord: Ordering[T]): Iterator[T] = { + val context = TaskContext.get() + if (context == null) { + val ordering = new GuavaOrdering[T] { + override def compare(l: T, r: T): Int = ord.compare(l, r) + } + ordering.leastOf(input.asJava, num).iterator.asScala + } else { + val sorter = + new ExternalSorter[T, Any, Any](context, None, None, Some(ord), ser) + sorter.insertAll(input.map(x => (x, null))) --- End diff -- I was thinking the value of this PR is to sort huge data and return small top k. If `GuavaOrdering` can already do this, I would suspect the value of this change. @cenyuhai What do you think?
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