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This PR adds a new abstraction called an `ExpressionSet` which attempts to canonicalize expressions to remove cosmetic differences.  Deterministic expressions that are in the set after canonicalization will always return the same answer given the same input (i.e. false positives should not be possible). However, it is possible that two canonical expressions that are not equal will in fact return the same answer given any input (i.e. false negatives are possible).

```scala
val set = AttributeSet('a + 1 :: 1 + 'a :: Nil)

set.iterator => Iterator('a + 1)
set.contains('a + 1) => true
set.contains(1 + 'a) => true
set.contains('a + 2) => false
```

Other relevant changes include:
 - Since this concept overlaps with the existing `semanticEquals` and `semanticHash`, those functions are also ported to this new infrastructure.
 - A memoized `canonicalized` version of the expression is added as a `lazy val` to `Expression` and is used by both `semanticEquals` and `ExpressionSet`.
 - A set of unit tests for `ExpressionSet` are added
 - Tests which expect `semanticEquals` to be less intelligent than it now is are updated.

As a followup, we should consider auditing the places where we do `O(n)` `semanticEquals` operations and replace them with `ExpressionSet`.  We should also consider consolidating `AttributeSet` as a specialized factory for an `ExpressionSet.`

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #11338 from marmbrus/expressionSet.
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Apache Spark

Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and DataFrames, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming for stream processing.

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Online Documentation

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Building Spark

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build/mvn -DskipTests clean package

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Interactive Scala Shell

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./bin/spark-shell

Try the following command, which should return 1000:

scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()

Interactive Python Shell

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./bin/pyspark

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>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()

Example Programs

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./bin/run-example SparkPi

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MASTER=spark://host:7077 ./bin/run-example SparkPi

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./dev/run-tests

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