tustvold commented on PR #5440:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/5440#issuecomment-1975782219

   So my understanding is there are two potential motivations for this 
functionality:
   
   1. To provide a more idiomatic API for constructing an OffsetBuffer
   2. To provide a more efficient API for constructing an OffsetBuffer
   
   Currently this PR I believe addresses 1, but not really 2. I would perhaps 
suggest taking a look at the way `OffsetBuffer::from_lengths` is implemented. 
In particular, tracking the in-progress size using `usize`, incrementing it 
using checked arithmetic, and converting to `O` with `usize_as`. Then at the 
end, i.e. in `OffsetsBuilder::finish`, checking if the value of `usize` 
overflows `O`. 


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