Github user shivaram commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/3913#issuecomment-73981654
The size estimator should be pretty accurate for measuring the size of
small Java objects. You could add a note that we do some approximation for
large arrays (we sample some elements of the array and then extrapolate).
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