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Rok Mihevc commented on ARROW-2475:
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> [Format] Confusing array length description
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>
> Key: ARROW-2475
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2475
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
> Assignee: Uwe Korn
> Priority: Trivial
> Fix For: 0.12.0
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> "To encourage developers to compose smaller arrays (each of which contains
> contiguous memory in its leaf nodes) to create larger array structures
> possibly exceeding 2^31 - 1 elements, as opposed to allocating very large
> contiguous memory blocks."
> I think it could use a little more verbose explanation: `to compose smaller
> arrays to create larger array structures`
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