After Weston's suggestion above, I've renamed files and classes in my WIP implementation:
ArrayView -> ListView On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:08 AM Ian Cook <i...@ursacomputing.com> wrote: > +1 to what Weston and Joris suggested regarding the name. "ListView" > seems like the best name to use for this layout in Arrow. > > My understanding is that the primary benefit of this ListView layout > over Arrow's existing List layouts [1] is that ListView allows for > buffer alignment [2] without padding, which makes vectorized > processing much more efficient. Is this understanding correct? > > [1] > https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#variable-size-list-layout > [2] > https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#buffer-alignment-and-padding > > Ian > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 5:27 AM Joris Van den Bossche > <jorisvandenboss...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 at 02:37, Weston Pace <weston.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > For context, there was some discussion on this back in [1]. At that > time > > > this was called "sequence view" but I do not like that name. However, > > > array-view array is a little confusing. Given this is similar to list > can > > > we go with list-view array? > > > > Yes, given that this is essentially an alternative representation of a > > logical "list" array, I would also prefer that we use the term "list" > > in the name for such a new type. The word "array" has a different > > meaning in context of our columnar specification. >
