Dandandan commented on code in PR #7873:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7873#discussion_r2189267753


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arrow-array/src/array/byte_view_array.rs:
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@@ -473,90 +473,79 @@ impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> GenericByteViewArray<T> {
     /// Note: this function does not attempt to canonicalize / deduplicate 
values. For this
     /// feature see  [`GenericByteViewBuilder::with_deduplicate_strings`].
     pub fn gc(&self) -> Self {
-        // Get the number of elements in this array
-        let len = self.len();
-        // Get the raw view values (u128 representations) for each element
-        let views = self.views();
-
-        // 1) Reuse the existing null bitmap from this array, to avoid 
rebuilding it,
-        //    Cloning the underlying buffer is less expensive than iterating 
and appending bits.
-        let nulls = self.nulls().cloned();
-
-        // 2) Pre-scan: compute the total number of bytes needed to store all 
non-inlined values
-        //    so we can reserve that capacity in one go.
-        let total_large_bytes: usize = (0..len)
+        // 1) Read basic properties once
+        let len = self.len(); // number of elements
+        let views = self.views(); // raw u128 “view” values per slot
+        let nulls = self.nulls().cloned(); // reuse & clone existing null 
bitmap
+
+        // 2) Pre-scan to determine how many out‑of‑line bytes we must store
+        let total_large: usize = (0..len)
             .filter_map(|i| {
+                // skip null entries
                 if self.is_null(i) {

Review Comment:
   This could be avoided for arrays without nulls.



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