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ASF GitHub Bot updated ARROW-4503:
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    Labels: performance pull-request-available  (was: performance)

> [C#] ArrowStreamReader allocates and copies data excessively
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>
>                 Key: ARROW-4503
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-4503
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: C#
>            Reporter: Eric Erhardt
>            Assignee: Eric Erhardt
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: performance, pull-request-available
>   Original Estimate: 48h
>  Remaining Estimate: 48h
>
> When reading `RecordBatch` instances using the `ArrowStreamReader` class, it 
> is currently allocating and copying memory 3 times for the data.
>  # It is allocating memory in order to [read the data from the 
> Stream|https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/044b418fa108a57f0b4e2e887546cc3e68271397/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Ipc/ArrowStreamReader.cs#L72-L74],
>  and then reading from the Stream.  (This should be the only allocation that 
> is necessary.)
>  # It then [creates a new 
> `ArrowBuffer.Builder`|https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/044b418fa108a57f0b4e2e887546cc3e68271397/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Ipc/ArrowStreamReader.cs#L227-L228],
>  which allocates another `byte[]`, and calls `Append` on it, which copies the 
> values to the new `byte[]`.
>  # Finally, it then calls `.Build()` on the `ArrowBuffer.Builder`, which 
> [allocates memory from the MemoryPool, and then copies the intermediate 
> buffer|https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/044b418fa108a57f0b4e2e887546cc3e68271397/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/ArrowBuffer.Builder.cs#L112-L121]
>  into it.
>  
> We should reduce this overhead to only allocating a single time (from the 
> MemoryPool), and not copying the data more times than necessary.



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