Wes McKinney created ARROW-245:
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Summary: [Format] Clarify Arrow's relationship with big endian
platforms
Key: ARROW-245
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-245
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Format
Reporter: Wes McKinney
Per August 2016 mailing list question re: big endian platforms, we have in the
format document:
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Layout.md#byte-order-endianness
We should clarify that this does not mean that Arrow cannot be used on big
endian platforms, but rather that the canonical or "in-flight" memory
representation (for IPC or memory sharing of any kind) is little-endian, so big
endian systems would need to byte swap big endian integers if they intend to
expose memory to any other system using Arrow.
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