alamb commented on code in PR #19571:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/19571#discussion_r2677488816


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datafusion/functions/src/unicode/left.rs:
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@@ -139,14 +139,23 @@ fn left_impl<'a, T: OffsetSizeTrait, V: 
ArrayAccessor<Item = &'a str>>(
     n_array: &Int64Array,
 ) -> Result<ArrayRef> {
     let iter = ArrayIter::new(string_array);
+    let mut chars_buf = Vec::new();
     let result = iter
         .zip(n_array.iter())
         .map(|(string, n)| match (string, n) {
             (Some(string), Some(n)) => match n.cmp(&0) {
                 Ordering::Less => {
-                    let len = string.chars().count() as i64;
-                    Some(if n.abs() < len {
-                        string.chars().take((len + n) as 
usize).collect::<String>()
+                    // Collect chars once and reuse for both count and take

Review Comment:
   You can probably use 
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.str.html#method.char_indices here to 
avoid copying the strings into `chars_buf`  entirely -- you could just find the 
correct offset and then copy the relevant bytes
   
   If you wanted to get super fancy, you could add specializations for:
   1. Scalar `n` (no need to expand it out to an array)
   2. StringViewArray (no need to copy strings at all, you could just adjust 
the views)
   
   However, this code seems better than what is on main! So we can merge it too 
and keep iterating



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