Sounds great, thanks. A number of people are looking at using Arrow for faster serialization for PySpark, so now that the Java and C++ libraries are compatible (cf: integration tests) we can make this a reality.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Julien Le Dem <jul...@dremio.com> wrote: > I'm happy to reach out to Matei. > Reynold is on this list and the Arrow PMC as well. > Wes, I can start with an email and CC you. > > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com> > wrote: > >> I already made sure that Matei is aware of this thread. He seemed >> interested in talking with key Arrow developers. >> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > I think someone should reach out to Matei and Shoumik, and see if they >> > would like to collaborate. Wes, would you like to do that? >> > >> > Also, reach out to the Spark community. Are they aware of Arrow? Are they >> > planning to use it, or are they developing an alternative? >> > >> > Julian >> > >> > >> > >> > > On Dec 13, 2016, at 10:23 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > > >> > > Looks like there will be a talk about Weld at Strata next Spring: >> > > >> > > http://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/strata-ca/public/ >> > schedule/detail/57646 >> > > >> > > It would be nice to see if there's any work that we can be doing in >> > > Arrow to try to collaborate on such closely-related efforts. >> > > >> > > - Wes >> > > >> > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> I've always contended that building a sort of "runtime" for in-memory >> > >> column expressions was a natural next step after hardening Arrow as a >> > >> data structure and memory exchange mechanism. I'm hopeful that we'll >> > >> see some cross-pollination between projects like Weld and Arrow to >> > >> produce open source solutions that help drive more collaboration and >> > >> consolidation around shared low-level needs for building analytical >> > >> systems. We still have significant work to do to solidify Arrow as a >> > >> standard -- anyone all reading can do to help work against >> > >> fragmentation in data structures / memory representations would be >> > >> very much appreciated! >> > >> >> > >> - Wes >> > >> >> > >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Donald Foss <donald.f...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >>> I had that in my queue, and your watching and thoughts about it mean >> I >> > need >> > >>> to watch it today ;) >> > >>> >> > >>> Thanks for the link to where you've played with abstraction before. >> I'm >> > >>> going to fork a copy and do some playing myself. I'm very interested >> > in how >> > >>> universal it can be, and a library to go from expression to universal >> > >>> intermediate, them output the code in the language of one's choice. >> The >> > >>> optimizations could be performed in the intermediate layer, the >> output >> > >>> later, or both if there are specific code optimizations available >> after >> > >>> translation. >> > >>> >> > >>> -Donald >> > >>> >> > >>> On Nov 22, 2016 2:31 PM, Julien Le Dem >> > >>> wrote: >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Julien
