Re: Is LittleEndian system mandatory for using Apache Arrow ?

2016-08-01 Thread Wes McKinney
ion of Apache Arrow will run on >> > Big Endian system. >> > Thanks,Sanjay >> > >> >> From: emkornfi...@gmail.com >> >> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 09:23:51 -0700 >> >> Subject: Re: Is LittleEndian system mandatory for using Apache Arrow ? >> &g

RE: Is LittleEndian system mandatory for using Apache Arrow ?

2016-08-01 Thread Sanjay Rao
1 Aug 2016 10:32:40 -0700 > Subject: Re: Is LittleEndian system mandatory for using Apache Arrow ? > To: dev@arrow.apache.org > CC: emkornfi...@gmail.com > > I replied on the other thread (missed this one). > > I believe that since the C++ codebase uses native endianness,

Re: Is LittleEndian system mandatory for using Apache Arrow ?

2016-08-01 Thread Wes McKinney
if at least Java version of Apache Arrow will run on Big Endian > system. > Thanks,Sanjay > >> From: emkornfi...@gmail.com >> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 09:23:51 -0700 >> Subject: Re: Is LittleEndian system mandatory for using Apache Arrow ? >> To: dev@arrow.apache.or

RE: Is LittleEndian system mandatory for using Apache Arrow ?

2016-08-01 Thread Sanjay Rao
va version of Apache Arrow will run on Big Endian system. Thanks,Sanjay > From: emkornfi...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 09:23:51 -0700 > Subject: Re: Is LittleEndian system mandatory for using Apache Arrow ? > To: dev@arrow.apache.org > > Hi Sanjay, > There was some discussi

Re: Is LittleEndian system mandatory for using Apache Arrow ?

2016-08-01 Thread Micah Kornfield
Hi Sanjay, There was some discussion on the mailing list a little while ago about this [1]. We discussed making endianness part of the IPC metadata. I don't think we've gotten far enough in the implementation to take action on the discussion though. Right now I think the C++ code at least is