Github user viirya commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16245
It is true of course you can construct a combination of complex string
operations and compare it with a simple Scala UDF. But as you said, the
previous claim is true in most of time. I also think Scala UDF is usually used
to write complex logic which can't be achieved by built-in expressions.
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