Re: rust using nightly channel

2018-04-10 Thread Renjie Liu
Yes, so maybe we need a conditional compilation method so that the user can choose. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:42 PM Andy Grove wrote: > My opinion is that we should continue to support Rust stable since there > are users who can only use Arrow if it works with Rust stable. > > However, maybe it

Re: rust using nightly channel

2018-04-10 Thread Andy Grove
My opinion is that we should continue to support Rust stable since there are users who can only use Arrow if it works with Rust stable. However, maybe it is possible to provide an API so that users can provide their own allocators and in that case they could choose to use nightly? It's a bit more

rust using nightly channel

2018-04-10 Thread Renjie Liu
Hi: Can we use experimental features in nightly channel? There are many useful features that can only be use in nightly channel, e.g. the Alloc api, since arrow requires control over low level primitives such as memory allocation, simd execution, etc. -- Liu, Renjie Software Engineer, MVAD