Jefffrey commented on PR #10614:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/10614#issuecomment-5323417726

   > on a slightly unrelated note,
   > 
   > @Jefffrey do you think `generic_bytes_dictionary_builder` could benefit 
from a `append_array()` method. it would take in a byte array 
(utf8/large/view/binary/...) and insert all of their elements into the 
dictionary at once instead of doing this in a loop. The goal is to squeeze out 
as much performance out of `cast(stringArray -> dictArray)` as possible.
   > 
   > 
https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/a5845cc14b23dc680115c6b1e7e8dd2f724a0631/arrow-array/src/builder/generic_bytes_dictionary_builder.rs#L327
   > 
   > currently the cast kernal for `stringArr -> dictArray` is
   > 
   > 
https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/a5845cc14b23dc680115c6b1e7e8dd2f724a0631/arrow-cast/src/cast/dictionary.rs#L506
   > 
   > which does this in a loop
   > 
   > 
https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/a5845cc14b23dc680115c6b1e7e8dd2f724a0631/arrow-cast/src/cast/dictionary.rs#L524
   
   if we can get some good numbers from this then would be worth exploring 👀 


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