Hi there,
I wanted to ask whether or not anyone has successfully used Jython with the
pyspark library. I wasn't sure if the C extension support was needed for
pyspark itself or was just a bonus of using Cython.
There was a claim (
PySpark doesn't attempt to support Jython at present. IMO while it might be a
bit faster, it would lose a lot of the benefits of Python, which are the very
strong data processing libraries (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, etc). So I'm not sure
it's worth supporting unless someone demonstrates a really
