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Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-2359:
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I don't know what the rationale is, though the aim may be to avoid lots of
spurious allocations. [~wesmckinn]
However, the question is whether there is an actual issue with the singleton
pattern here, and I'm not convinced there is.
> Type objects produced by DataType factory are not thread safe
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> Key: ARROW-2359
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2359
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Anton Shmigirilov
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: pull-request-available
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> TYPE_FACTORY() macro that produces type shortcuts (boolean(), int32(), utf8()
> and so on) uses static shared_ptr inside. There are race conditions possible
> against shared_ptr's reference counter.
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