[SPARK-928] Add support for Unsafe-based serializer in Kryo 2.22

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Labels: starter
• Assignee: Sandeep Singh
• Reporter: Matei Alexandru Zaharia
• Created: 09/Oct/13 16:59
• Updated: 22/Oct/16 19:03
• Resolved: 22/Oct/16 19:03

Description

This can reportedly be quite a bit faster, but it also requires Chill to update its Kryo dependency. Once that happens we should add a spark.kryo.useUnsafe flag.

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-11416 Upgrade kryo package to version 3.0
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #12913 (techaddict)