Re: [Discuss] IPC Specification, flatbuffers and unaligned memory accesses

[Wes McKinney <we...@gmail.com>]

I'm going to review Micah's Format PR and propose a vote. I would like
to take on the C++ implementation of this in the near future.

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 11:34 AM Antoine Pitrou <an...@python.org> wrote:
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> Le 29/07/2019 à 18:32, Wes McKinney a écrit :
> >
> > We have a version number in the metadata already
> > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Schema.fbs#L22. I
> > don't think we need to add other signaling beyond the 0xFFFFFFFF
> > (stream continues / non-null message) / 0x00000000 (stream end / null
> > message) marker at the beginning of the IPC payload
> >
> > Unless you envision a situation where the metadata cannot be obtained.
> > I would hope that this can never occur.
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> Fair enough.  I hope so as well. :-)
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> Regards
>
> Antoine.