[ARROW-16166] [C++] Create lightweight utilities for manipulating primitive arrays

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31571
• Assignee: Michal Nowakiewicz
• Reporter: Weston Pace
• Created: 12/Apr/22 02:13
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:42
• Resolved: 21/Apr/22 13:13

Description

I'm working with michalno to break up ARROW-14182 into smaller PRs to ease review. This PR adds some general purpose utilities that make it easier to work with primitive arrays, avoiding shared_ptr and allocation overhead.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12872