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Re:Apache Arrow 3.0 by int_19h on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:33PM (#26022279)
I think the idea is that you'd have a Python object that behaves exactly like a list of ints would, but with Arrow as its backing store.
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Re:Apache Arrow 3.0 by kylebarron on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:29PM (#26022590)
This is similar to Numpy. You operate on Python objects that describe the Numpy structure, but the actual memory is stored in C objects, not Python objects.
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