[GitHub] [arrow-datafusion] alamb commented on a diff in pull request #2183: MINOR: handle `NULL` in advance to avoid value copy in `string_concat`

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alamb commented on code in PR #2183:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/2183#discussion_r847772351


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datafusion/physical-expr/src/expressions/binary.rs:
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@@ -430,17 +431,17 @@ fn string_concat(left: ArrayRef, right: ArrayRef) -> Result<ArrayRef> {
         scalar_value => scalar_value.into_array(left.clone().len()),
     };
     let ignore_null_array = ignore_null.as_any().downcast_ref::<StringArray>().unwrap();
-    let result = (0..ignore_null_array.len())
+    let index_array = (0..ignore_null_array.len())
         .into_iter()
         .map(|index| {
             if left.is_null(index) || right.is_null(index) {
                 None
             } else {
-                Some(ignore_null_array.value(index))
+                Some(index as u32)
             }
         })
-        .collect::<StringArray>();
-
+        .collect::<UInt32Array>();
+    let result = take(ignore_null_array, &index_array, None)?;

Review Comment:
   Filed https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/1540 to add an optimized implementation to arrow-rs



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