[ARROW-10328] [C++] Consider using fast-double-parser

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/26317
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 16/Oct/20 14:41
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:12
• Resolved: 21/Oct/20 16:43

Description

We use Google's double-conversion library for parsing strings to doubles. We should consider using this library, which is more than 2x faster.
https://github.com/lemire/fast_double_parser

Parsing doubles is important for CSV performance.

Issue Links

• relates to: ARROW-10308 [Python] read_csv from python is slow on some work loads
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8494