[ARROW-206] [C++] Expose an equality API for arrays that compares a range of slots on two arrays

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15553
• Assignee: Micah Kornfield
• Reporter: Micah Kornfield
• Created: 20/May/16 07:43
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:07
• Resolved: 23/May/16 20:58

Description

We need this type of thing to compare equality of structs/unions if we want to avoid allocating new arrays when comparing structs when the array has at least one null element.