Github user hvanhovell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/19222#discussion_r138738642
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common/unsafe/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/memory/ByteArrayMemoryBlock.java
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+import org.apache.spark.unsafe.Platform;
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+/**
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with a fixed size.
+ */
+public class ByteArrayMemoryBlock extends MemoryLocation implements
MemoryBlock {
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Why do we need different implementations of a MemoryBlock? We should be
able to have all required functionality with one class, and a little bit of
offset magic.
I am opposed to creating a class hierarchy because this is super
performance critical code. Polymorphism will slow us down.
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