On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 3:58 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote:
> > Le 11/08/2021 à 21:56, Phillip Cloud a écrit : > > I can see how that might be a bit circular. Let me start from the > > perspective of requirements. We want to be able to reuse the arrow's > types > > and schema, without having to write additional code to move back and > forth > > between compute IR and not-compute-IR. I think that leaves only > flatbuffers > > as an option. > > If that's the case then agreed (well, you can always embed as a raw > bytestring in other formats, but that wouldn't be pretty). > > I just wonder what the complexity of using Flatbuffers is for e.g. Python. > IMO the complexity isn't high, but the generated code is definitely not idiomatic ( https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_guide_tutorial.html) > > Regards > > Antoine. >
