That's a good question. The end goal of this PR is to allow implementing https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1019 (compressed input and output streams), where we'd like to expose a flush operation (for output streams).
(unfortunately the semantics of flushing may be compressor-dependent: in some cases, perhaps not _all_ output is flushed, or the output is not valid compressed data until you've called End()) [ Full content available at: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/2696 ] This message was relayed via gitbox.apache.org for [email protected]
