As suggested by Micah, there are some problems with the common interface
for numeric types:
1. corner cases for transforming special floating point values, like NaN,
inf, etc.
2. loss of precision when transforming long to double.
Instead, we provide a common interface for float4 & float8 values.
Hi Micah,
Thanks for the good points.
I agree with you that we should improve the efficiency of algorithms.
This is related to another improvement: reduce the if/switch statements in
the code.
To account for the edge cases, can we remove the set methods, and leaving
only the get method?
This is
Hi Liya Fan,
I'm not sure if this is a good idea. First, floating point operations have
more edge cases than integer arithmetic (e.g. dealing with NaNs). Second,
and I apologize that I've been remiss in thinking this through on reviews,
but I think we should be thinking about how to make
Liya Fan created ARROW-6245:
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Summary: [DISCUSS][Java] Provide an interface for numeric vectors
Key: ARROW-6245
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6245
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue
Dear all,
We want to provide an interface for all vectors with numeric types (small
int, float4, float8, etc). This interface will make it convenient for many
operations on a vector, like average, sum, variance, etc. With this
interface, the client code will be greatly simplified, with many
