perf: Use NullBuffer::union_many#22070
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Which issue does this PR close?
NullBuffer::union_manywhen appropriate #21880.Rationale for this change
Now that
NullBuffer::union_manyhas landed in arrow-rs 58.2, we can use it to simplify and speedup various places in DataFusion that were union'ing together > 2 null buffers. In such cases,union_manyavoids the intermediate allocations that are done by repeatedunioncalls.What changes are included in this PR?
NullBuffer::union_manythroughout the codebasecompute_null_maskin the Spark crate to be more readable and avoid needlessly padding scalars out to arrays just to compute the null maskAre these changes tested?
Yes, covered by existing tests.
Are there any user-facing changes?
No.