lidavidm commented on PR #13364: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13364#issuecomment-1156533755
> > though you could play games with reusing a single field for storage of different types' metadata > > Or simply use a `variant` for that. Though, of course, it might come with its own overhead due to compilers being imperfect :-) We can do better than variant since the type id is the discriminant, which I don't think you can accomplish with std::variant -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
