Yes, so maybe we need a conditional compilation method so that the user can choose.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:42 PM Andy Grove <andygrov...@gmail.com> wrote: > My opinion is that we should continue to support Rust stable since there > are users who can only use Arrow if it works with Rust stable. > > However, maybe it is possible to provide an API so that users can provide > their own allocators and in that case they could choose to use nightly? > > It's a bit more work for us, but gives users more choice. > > Also, SIMD and alloc are both going to be stabilized very soon anyway so we > might not have to wait too long. > > Thanks, > > Andy. > > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:38 AM, Renjie Liu <liurenjie2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi: > > Can we use experimental features in nightly channel? There are many > useful > > features that can only be use in nightly channel, e.g. the Alloc api, > since > > arrow requires control over low level primitives such as memory > allocation, > > simd execution, etc. > > > > > > -- > > Liu, Renjie > > Software Engineer, MVAD > > > -- Liu, Renjie Software Engineer, MVAD
