Re: new user question about cross-language use

2018-04-15 Thread Wes McKinney
hi Chris, To add to Uwe's e-mail: > In this case, the sharing is zero-serialization but not zero-copy. This depends. If an implementation supports shared memory, then zero-copy access is possible. So if you generated data in C++, you could access it in another C++ program or Python program witho

Re: new user question about cross-language use

2018-04-15 Thread Uwe L. Korn
Hello Chris, at the moment, we have focused on sharing Arrow structures via inter process communication (IPC). In this case, the sharing is zero-serialization but not zero-copy. Given that we have good integration tests now for a good subset of all implementations, the sharing of memory between