thisisnic commented on pull request #11783: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/11783#issuecomment-986688170
> At the very least, if we were to just use `double` we should make some alias `using r_size = double` or something so that we can spot them. > > But otherwise, this was just trying to remain compatible with R: > > ```r > str(length(raw(2^30))) > #> int 1073741824 > str(length(raw(2^31))) > #> num 2.15e+09 > ``` > > Created on 2021-12-03 by the [reprex package](https://reprex.tidyverse.org) (v2.0.1.9000) Good call! I have opened a separate JIRA to deal with this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14989 -- 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. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
