clbarnes commented on issue #4611:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/4611#issuecomment-1842938290

   > if the size is known they could just use get_range, no?
   
   Yes, and that's all we'd do internally. I suppose it's a bit defensive, 
affording the same ergonomics/ aesthetics to users who do or don't know the 
size so that they can think about it in terms of the suffix length rather than 
needing `saturating_sub`s all over the place. It also stands to remind users 
"hey, I do know the size actually", where they might otherwise be tempted to 
just ask for a suffix and use the possibly-slow path.


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