xinlifoobar commented on code in PR #6306:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/6306#discussion_r1732795874


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arrow-array/src/array/byte_view_array.rs:
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@@ -317,8 +317,11 @@ impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> GenericByteViewArray<T> {
         })
     }
 
-    /// Returns an iterator over the prefix bytes of this array with respect 
to the prefix length.
-    /// If the prefix length is larger than the string length, it will return 
the empty slice.
+    /// Returns an iterator over the first `prefix_len` bytes of each array
+    /// element, including null values.
+    ///
+    /// If `prefix_len` is larger than the element's length, the iterator will

Review Comment:
   Thanks for the suggestions! @tustvold.
   
   I created a new PR #6312 to put this discussion. I did this in the early 
version but didn't see performance gains like this time - it did well for 
inline values. We might do a combination based on the bench result, e.g., null 
masks for prefix_iter and slice for suffix_iter.
   



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