Dandandan commented on code in PR #7873:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7873#discussion_r2189275118


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arrow-array/src/array/byte_view_array.rs:
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@@ -473,13 +473,81 @@ 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 {
-        let mut builder = 
GenericByteViewBuilder::<T>::with_capacity(self.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) {
+                    None
+                } else {
+                    // extract the ByteView metadata from the u128
+                    let raw_view: u128 = views[i];
+                    let bv = ByteView::from(raw_view);
+                    // if length exceeds inline limit, count it
+                    (bv.length > MAX_INLINE_VIEW_LEN).then_some(bv.length as 
usize)
+                }
+            })
+            .sum();
+        // allocate exactly the capacity needed for all non‑inline data
+        let mut data_buf = Vec::with_capacity(total_large);
+
+        // 3) Build new view array in one pass
+        //    map each index to a new u128, collecting into a Vec<u128>
+        let views_buf: Vec<u128> = (0..len)
+            .map(|i| {
+                // if null, represent as 0
+                if self.is_null(i) {

Review Comment:
   Same here - could use `set_indices` for nulls, could optimize non-null case.



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