That's an interesting question for which I do not know the answer. Probably a question for someone with more knowledge of the internals of the shell interpreter...
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:19 PM, aecc <alessandroa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, great, I'm gonna do do it that way, thanks :). However I still don't > understand why this object should be serialized and shipped? > > aaa.s and sc are both the same object org.apache.spark.SparkContext@1f222881 > > However this : > aaa.s.parallelize(1 to 10).filter(_ == myNumber).count > > Needs to be serialized, and this: > > sc.parallelize(1 to 10).filter(_ == myNumber).count > > does not. -- Marcelo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org