zhuqi-lucas commented on code in PR #7873:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7873#discussion_r2199447035


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arrow-array/src/array/byte_view_array.rs:
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@@ -473,13 +473,78 @@ impl<T: ByteViewType + ?Sized> GenericByteViewArray<T> {
     /// Note: this function does not attempt to canonicalize / deduplicate 
values. For this
     /// feature see  [`GenericByteViewBuilder::with_deduplicate_strings`].
     pub fn gc(&self) -> Self {
-        let mut builder = 
GenericByteViewBuilder::<T>::with_capacity(self.len());
+        // 1) Read basic properties once
+        let len = self.len(); // number of elements
+        let views = self.views(); // raw u128 "view" values per slot
+        let nulls = self.nulls().cloned(); // reuse & clone existing null 
bitmap
+
+        // 1.5) Fast path: if there are buffers, just reuse original views and 
no data blocks
+        if self.data_buffers().is_empty() {
+            return unsafe {
+                GenericByteViewArray::new_unchecked(
+                    self.views().clone(),
+                    vec![], // empty data blocks
+                    nulls,
+                )
+            };
+        }
 
-        for v in self.iter() {
-            builder.append_option(v);
+        // 2) Calculate total size of all non-inline data and detect if any 
exists
+        let total_large = self.total_buffer_bytes_used();
+
+        // 2.5) Fast path: if there is no non-inline data, avoid buffer 
allocation & processing
+        if total_large == 0 {
+            // Views are inline-only or all null; just reuse original views 
and no data blocks
+            return unsafe {
+                GenericByteViewArray::new_unchecked(
+                    self.views().clone(),
+                    vec![], // empty data blocks
+                    nulls,
+                )
+            };
         }
 
-        builder.finish()
+        // 3) Allocate exactly capacity for all non-inline data
+        let mut data_buf = Vec::with_capacity(total_large);
+
+        // 4) Iterate over views and process each inline/non-inline view
+        let views_buf: Vec<u128> = (0..len)
+            .map(|i| self.process_view(i, views, &mut data_buf))
+            .collect();
+
+        // 5) Wrap up buffers
+        let data_block = Buffer::from_vec(data_buf);
+        let views_scalar = ScalarBuffer::from(views_buf);
+        let data_blocks = vec![data_block];
+
+        // SAFETY: views_scalar, data_blocks, and nulls are correctly aligned 
and sized
+        unsafe { GenericByteViewArray::new_unchecked(views_scalar, 
data_blocks, nulls) }
+    }
+
+    // This is the helper function that processes a view at index `i`,
+    // extracting the data from the buffers if necessary.
+    // It used by `gc` function to process each view.
+    #[inline(always)]
+    fn process_view(&self, i: usize, views: &[u128], data_buf: &mut Vec<u8>) 
-> u128 {

Review Comment:
   Thank you @alamb for review and  good suggestion, addressed in latest PR.



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