pitrou commented on a change in pull request #9294: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9294#discussion_r566395588
########## File path: cpp/src/arrow/compute/kernels/scalar_cast_boolean.cc ########## @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ struct ParseBooleanString { std::vector<std::shared_ptr<CastFunction>> GetBooleanCasts() { auto func = std::make_shared<CastFunction>("cast_boolean", Type::BOOL); AddCommonCasts(Type::BOOL, boolean(), func.get()); + AddZeroCopyCast(Type::BOOL, boolean(), boolean(), func.get()); Review comment: The question is: why do we need the identity cast for non-parametric types? Calling a no-op kernel sounds like pointless overhead. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org