Github user cloud-fan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13680#discussion_r79559429 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/UnsafeArrayData.java --- @@ -25,55 +25,58 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.types.*; import org.apache.spark.unsafe.Platform; import org.apache.spark.unsafe.array.ByteArrayMethods; +import org.apache.spark.unsafe.bitset.BitSetMethods; import org.apache.spark.unsafe.hash.Murmur3_x86_32; import org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.CalendarInterval; import org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.UTF8String; /** * An Unsafe implementation of Array which is backed by raw memory instead of Java objects. * - * Each tuple has three parts: [numElements] [offsets] [values] + * Each array has four parts: + * [numElements][null bits][values or offset&length][variable length portion] * - * The `numElements` is 4 bytes storing the number of elements of this array. + * The `numElements` is 8 bytes storing the number of elements of this array. * - * In the `offsets` region, we store 4 bytes per element, represents the relative offset (w.r.t. the - * base address of the array) of this element in `values` region. We can get the length of this - * element by subtracting next offset. - * Note that offset can by negative which means this element is null. + * In the `null bits` region, we store 1 bit per element, represents whether a element has null --- End diff -- `an element is null`
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