On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 1:12 AM Micah Kornfield wrote:
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> > Is it to ensure O(1) random access (instead of having to sum all
> > deltas up to the index)?
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> This is my understanding of why it was chosen.
Yes, that's the reason. For example, certain columnar query processing
patterns
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> Is it to ensure O(1) random access (instead of having to sum all
> deltas up to the index)?
This is my understanding of why it was chosen.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:32 PM Jorge Cardoso Leitão <
jorgecarlei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (this has no direction; I am just genuinely curious)
Hi,
(this has no direction; I am just genuinely curious)
I am wondering, what is the rational to use "offsets" instead of
"lengths" to represent variable sized arrays?
I.e. ["a", "", None, "ab"] is represented as
offsets: [0, 1, 1, 1, 3]
values: "aab"
what is the reasoning to use this over
