Hi, For host memory, you can use pyarrow.foreign_buffer, see https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.foreign_buffer.html
For device memory, one can use pyarrow.cuda.foreign_buffer. HTH, Pearu On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:53 PM Randy Zwitch <randy.zwi...@omnisci.com> wrote: > Within OmniSci (MapD), we have the following code that takes a pointer > and length and reads to a NumPy array before calling py_buffer: > > https://github.com/omnisci/pymapd/blob/master/pymapd/shm.pyx#L31-L52 > > Is it possible to eliminate the NumPy step and go directly do an Arrow > buffer? There is both a concern that we're doing an unnecessary memory > copy, as well as wanting to defer to the Arrow way of doing things as > much as possible rather than having our own shims like these. > >
