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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-1389:
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Since the serializer in libarrow_python is for ephemeral serialization, then if
Python exports the internal bytes in an large integer (and provides a
constructor to take them back), then that's probably going to be the easiest
thing. Implementing a portable implementation that will be also Java friendly
may require some work.
> Support arbitrary precision integers
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> Key: ARROW-1389
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1389
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Philipp Moritz
> Priority: Minor
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> For Python serialization it would be great if we had Arrow support for
> arbitrary precision integers, see the comment in
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/de7c6715ba244e119913bfa31b8de46dbbd450bf/python/pyarrow/tests/test_serialization.py#L183
> Long integers are for example used in the uuid python module and having this
> would increase serialization performance for uuids and also make the code
> cleaner.
> I wonder if this is more generally useful too, any thoughts?
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