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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-1816: ------------------------------------- I think the issue here is to avoid branching at the array cell for Java. If there is a switch branch at the hot path for accessing values, then the JIT may generate worse code > [Java] Resolve new vector classes structure for timestamp, date and maybe > interval > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-1816 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1816 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Li Jin > Fix For: 0.8.0 > > > Personally I think having 8 vector classes for timestamps is not great. This > is discussed at some point during the PR: > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1203#discussion_r145241388 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)