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Uwe L. Korn commented on ARROW-2712:
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Thanks [~Jamie Elliott] for taking a look at this! Some feedback to your 
proposal:

* MemoryPool: I guess it is best to go with 
https://github.com/allisterb/jemalloc.NET A speciality we have in Arrow is that 
we want to have 64byte-aligned allocations to make the most use out of SIMD 
instruction set. I don't see that there is an interface in the linked ones that 
provides aligned allocation and especially aligned reallocation.
* Buffer: At a first glance the mentioned .net interfaces here seem to fit 
quite good to what we have in the C++ implementation.
* ChunkedArray: Not sure how much you would want to build upon BufferSegment. 
It provides a nice .net-style scaffold for an API for ChunkedArray but it still 
a bit away from what ChunkedArray really is about.

Cool name: No good idea but in your text you naturally used the word 
{{narrow}}. But this is probably more a bad pun that a good name :D

> .NET Language Binding for Arrow
> -------------------------------
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>                 Key: ARROW-2712
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2712
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: GLib
>            Reporter: Jamie Elliott
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: features, newbie
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> A feature request. I've seen this pop up in a few places. Want to have a 
> record of discussion on this topic. 
> I may be open to contributing this, but first need some general guidance on 
> approach so I can understand effort level. 
> It looks like there is not a good tool available for GObject Introspection 
> binding to .NET so the easy pathway via Arrow Glib C API appears to be 
> closed. 
> The only GObject integration for .NET appears to be Mono GAPI
> [http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/gapi/]
> From what I can see this produces a GIR or similar XML, then generates C# 
> code directly from that. Likely involves many manual fix ups of the XML. 
> Worth a try? 
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> Alternatively I could look at generating some other direct binding from .NET 
> to C/C++. Where I work we use Swig [http://www.swig.org/]. Good for vanilla 
> cases, requires hand crafting of the .i files and specialized marshalling 
> strategies for optimizing performance critical cases. 
> Haven't tried CppSharp but it looks more appealing than Swig in some ways 
> [https://github.com/mono/CppSharp/wiki/Users-Manual]
> In either case, not sure if better to use Glib C API or C++ API directly. 
> What would be pros/cons? 
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