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Read CSV Files Using Polars in Rust

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. LazyCsvReader is more limited compared to CsvReader. CsvReader support specifying schema while LazyCsvReader does not.

  2. An empty filed is parsed as null instead of an empty string by default. And there is no way to change this behavior at this time. Please refer to this issue

Memory Layout of Enum in Rust

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips & Traps

  1. The closest thing to describe Rust Enum is tagged Union. The Rust compiler adds an extra (up to) 8 bytes to the enum to store the discriminator. This is used to identify the variant currently stored in the enum. However, Rust does NOT guarantee that the memory layout of an enum is always a tag followed by a union. Instead, the Rust compiler retains the freedom to optimize the layout of types so that the code can be more memory efficient.