[ARROW-11078] [C++] Implement autocasting in arithmetic compute kernels

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/26990
• Assignee: Ben Kietzman
• Reporter: Jonathan Keane
• Created: 30/Dec/20 18:03
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:17
• Resolved: 05/Jan/21 21:52

Description

Arithmetic compute kernels should autocast arguments when possible similar to how dataset expressions autocast arguments (e.g. `arrow::compute::Add(float_array, int_array))` should cast the integer array to a float before adding if possible)

Issue Links

• duplicates: ARROW-8919 [C++] Add "DispatchBest" APIs to compute::Function that selects a kernel that may require implicit casts to invoke
• is a child of: ARROW-12748 [C++] Arithmetic kernels for numeric arrays