[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-1701) Inconsistent naming: "slice" or "partition"

["Nicholas Chammas (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nicholas Chammas commented on SPARK-1701:
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In addition to "slice" and "partition", we also have "task".

Here's an example from Spark 1.0.2:
* PySpark {{reduceByKey}} [API documentation|http://spark.apache.org/docs/1.0.2/api/python/pyspark.rdd.RDD-class.html#reduceByKey] says {{numPartitions}}
* [Spark Programming Guide|http://spark.apache.org/docs/1.0.2/programming-guide.html#transformations] calls the same thing {{numTasks}}

> Inconsistent naming: "slice" or "partition"
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-1701
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1701
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Documentation, Spark Core
>            Reporter: Daniel Darabos
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Throughout the documentation and code "slice" and "partition" are used interchangeably. (Or so it seems to me.) It would avoid some confusion for new users to settle on one name. I think "partition" is winning, since that is the name of the class representing the concept.
> This should not be much more complicated to do than a search & replace. I can take a stab at it, if you agree.



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