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This takes an address, size and a Python object for having a reference on the
object. In your case the last one can be None. Note that this will not do a
copy and thus directly reference the shared memory.
Uwe
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, at 6:49 PM, Randy Zwitch
Within OmniSci (MapD), we have the following code that takes a pointer
and length and reads to a NumPy array before calling py_buffer:
https://github.com/omnisci/pymapd/blob/master/pymapd/shm.pyx#L31-L52
Is it possible to eliminate the NumPy step and go directly do an Arrow
buffer? There is
Script, you can reference the
> implementation here
> <
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/e14705745bb8d625b3c7dda2857e93cdfe848178/js/src/ipc/reader/binary.ts#L145>.
>
> Hope this clears things up,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 07/12/2018 11:30 AM, Randy Zwitch wrote:
>
y mean/their
structure and how to process them further.
Thanks,
Randy Zwitch
