Hey Sidd, Thanks for pulling this together. This looks very promising. One quick thought: do we think the concept of the reader and writer index need to be on ArrowBuf? It seems like something that could be added as an additional decoration/wrapper when needed instead of being part of the core structure.
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 11:26 AM Siddharth Teotia <siddha...@dremio.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have put a PR with WIP changes. All the major set of changes have been > done to decouple the usage of ArrowBuf and reference management. The > ArrowBuf interface is much simpler and clean now. > > I believe there would be several folks in the community interested in these > changes so please feel free to take a look at the PR and provide your > feedback -- https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/4151 > > There is some cleanup needed (code doesn't compile yet) due to moving the > APIs but I have raised the PR to get an early feedback from the community > on the critical changes. > > Thanks, > Siddharth >