[SPARK-18714] SparkSession.time - a simple timer function

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 2.1.0
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 05/Dec/16 06:10
• Updated: 06/Dec/16 19:49
• Resolved: 06/Dec/16 19:49

Description

Many Spark developers often want to test the runtime of some function in interactive debugging and testing. It'd be really useful to have a simple spark.time method that can test the runtime.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #16140 (rxin)