@@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ class PairRDDFunctions[K, V](self: RDD[(K, V)])
105105 }
106106
107107 /**
108- * This method is here for backward compatibility. It
109- * does not provide combiner classtag information to
110- * the shuffle.
108+ * Generic function to combine the elements for each key using a custom set of aggregation
109+ * functions. This method is here for backward compatibility. It does not provide combiner
110+ * classtag information to the shuffle.
111111 *
112112 * @see [[combineByKeyWithClassTag ]]
113113 */
@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ class PairRDDFunctions[K, V](self: RDD[(K, V)])
123123 }
124124
125125 /**
126- * This method is here for backward compatibility. It
127- * does not provide combiner classtag information to
128- * the shuffle.
126+ * Simplified version of combineByKeyWithClassTag that hash-partitions the output RDD.
127+ * This method is here for backward compatibility. It does not provide combiner
128+ * classtag information to the shuffle.
129129 *
130130 * @see [[combineByKeyWithClassTag ]]
131131 */
@@ -605,9 +605,9 @@ class PairRDDFunctions[K, V](self: RDD[(K, V)])
605605 }
606606
607607 /**
608- * This method is here for backward compatibility. It
609- * does not provide combiner classtag information to
610- * the shuffle.
608+ * Simplified version of combineByKeyWithClassTag that hash-partitions the resulting RDD using the
609+ * existing partitioner/parallelism level. This method is here for backward compatibility. It
610+ * does not provide combiner classtag information to the shuffle.
611611 *
612612 * @see [[combineByKeyWithClassTag ]]
613613 */
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