devanbenz commented on code in PR #10136:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/10136#discussion_r3403758646


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arrow-buffer/src/util/bit_util.rs:
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@@ -19,6 +19,49 @@
 
 use crate::bit_chunk_iterator::BitChunks;
 
+/// Parallel bit extract: for each set bit in `mask`, extract the
+/// corresponding bit from `value` and pack them contiguously into the low
+/// bits of the return value.
+///
+/// Equivalent to the x86 BMI2 `PEXT` instruction. When compiled with the
+/// `bmi2` target feature enabled (for example `-C target-cpu=x86-64-v3`)
+/// this lowers to the hardware `pext` instruction; otherwise it falls back
+/// to a portable scalar loop.
+///
+/// Replace with `value.compress(mask)` when `uint_gather_scatter_bits`
+/// is stabilised: <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/149069>
+#[inline]
+pub fn compress(value: u64, mask: u64) -> u64 {

Review Comment:
   This is currently ported from 
https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9848/changes#diff-f2fe5b601534125d0ba033762b62db93ae2f81c71a543b6694df33773ebfa308R939-R976



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