I am in favor of using usize. Thanks.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 7:20 PM paddy horan <paddyho...@hotmail.com> wrote: > All, > > As part of the PR for ARROW-3347 there was a discussion regarding the type > that should be used for anything that measures the length of an array, > i.e. len and capacity. > > The result of this discussion was that the Rust implementation should > switch to using usize as the type for representing len and capacity. This > would mean supporting a way to split larger arrays into smaller array when > passing data from one implementation to another. The exact size of these > smaller arrays would depend on the implementation you are passing data to. > C++ supports arrays up to size i64, but **all** implementations support > lengths up to i32 as specified by the spec. The full discussion is here: > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/2858 > > This is not a major change so I’ll push it to 0.13 but I wanted to open up > the discussion before making the change, the previous debate was hidden in > a PR. In particular, Andy and Chao are you in favor of this change? > > Paddy >
