tustvold commented on code in PR #1832:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/1832#discussion_r894309921


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arrow/src/compute/kernels/substring.rs:
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@@ -182,24 +182,66 @@ pub fn substring_by_char<OffsetSize: OffsetSizeTrait>(
     start: i64,
     length: Option<u64>,
 ) -> Result<GenericStringArray<OffsetSize>> {
-    Ok(array
-        .iter()
-        .map(|val| {
-            val.map(|val| {
-                let char_count = val.chars().count();
-                let start = if start >= 0 {
-                    start.to_usize().unwrap().min(char_count)
-                } else {
-                    char_count - (-start).to_usize().unwrap().min(char_count)
-                };
-                let length = length.map_or(char_count - start, |length| {
-                    length.to_usize().unwrap().min(char_count - start)
-                });
+    let mut vals = BufferBuilder::<u8>::new(array.value_data().len());
+    let mut offsets = BufferBuilder::<OffsetSize>::new(array.len() + 1);
+    offsets.append(OffsetSize::zero());
+    let length = length.map(|len| len.to_usize().unwrap());
+
+    array.iter().for_each(|val| {

Review Comment:
   > because it is just a bitwise operation
   
   I would not underestimate how remarkably slow bitwise operations can be, 
especially when used to predicate branches. But yes, likely for this kernel the 
bottleneck lies elsewhere



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