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Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-602: -------------------------------------- We have {{ArrayDataVisitor}} now that will tackle many of the use cases of iterator access (though with inversion of control, so you have to define a visitor class which may feel like boilerplate). The nice thing with the inversion of control is that we may for example optimize {{ArrayDataVisitor}} by unrolling the null bitmap reading loop 8 times. > C++: Provide iterator access to primitive elements inside a > Column/ChunkedArray > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-602 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-602 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: C++ > Reporter: Uwe L. Korn > Priority: Major > Labels: beginner, newbie > > Given a ChunkedArray, an Arrow user must currently iterate over all its > chunks and then cast them to their types to extract the primitive memory > regions to access the values. A convenient way to access the underlying > values would be to offer a function that takes a ChunkedArray and returns a > C++ iterator over all elements. > While this may not be the most performant way to access the underlying data, > it should have sufficient performance and adds a convenience layer for new > users. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)