[ARROW-4769] [Rust] Improve array limit function where max records > len

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Rust
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21288
• Assignee: Neville Dipale
• Reporter: Neville Dipale
• Created: 05/Mar/19 05:43
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:36
• Resolved: 05/Mar/19 17:57

Description

When we have an array of n records, and we want to take a limit that's higher or equat to n, we still iterate through the array values and create a new array.

We could improve this by returning a copy of the array as-is.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3811