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authorPatrick Wendell <pwendell@gmail.com>2013-10-18 23:08:44 -0700
committerPatrick Wendell <pwendell@gmail.com>2013-10-18 23:08:44 -0700
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Clarify compression property.
Clarifies that this governs compression of internal data, not input data or output data.
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@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Apart from these, the following properties are also available, and may be useful
<td>spark.io.compression.codec</td>
<td>org.apache.spark.io.<br />LZFCompressionCodec</td>
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- The compression codec class to use for various compressions. By default, Spark provides two
+ The codec used to compress internal data such as RDD partitions and shuffle outputs. By default, Spark provides two
codecs: <code>org.apache.spark.io.LZFCompressionCodec</code> and <code>org.apache.spark.io.SnappyCompressionCodec</code>.
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