[ARROW-253] Int types should only have width of 8*2^n (8, 16, 32, 64)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: Format
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15595
• Assignee: Julien Le Dem
• Reporter: Julien Le Dem
• Created: 10/Aug/16 19:25
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:07
• Resolved: 12/Aug/16 23:00

Description

Since arrow is focused on CPU efficient operations and we want to keep the spec simple to the minimum required we should restrict the Int type to width of 1, 2, 4 or 8 bytes

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