Thanks, Antoine. I was hoping that was the case. I filed a PR to make this more specific in the spec.
https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1959 This is filed under a Rust issue where this question came about. Thanks, Andy. On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > Le 28/04/2018 à 16:55, Andy Grove a écrit : > > I have implemented structs in Rust as a vector of Arrays. Each nested > array > > uses a byte-aligned contiguous region of memory, but the array for field > 2 > > is not contiguous with the array for field 1. > > Child arrays of a nested arrays do not have to be contiguous with one > another. They are truly independent arrays that just happen to be > related through their usage in the nested array. > > Regards > > Antoine. >
