Andy Grove created ARROW-2373:
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Summary: [Rust] Investigate alternate ways to acheive byte-aligned
memory
Key: ARROW-2373
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2373
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Rust
Reporter: Andy Grove
The current Rust implementation of Buffer<T> relies on libc and unsafe code to
allocate byte-aligned buffers.
It would be nice to find a safer way to do this.
Rust 1.25 added support for byte-aligned structs, but that doesn't help.
I have started a discussion in the Rust develop forum about adding support for
byte-aligned Vec ([https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/byte-aligned-vec/7200).]
RawVec has been suggested too, but that required rust nightly, which doesn't
seem great to me.
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