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⚡ Bolt: Optimize substring_by_char by avoiding unconditional chars().count()#10

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💡 What

This change optimizes the substring_by_char function by avoiding an unconditional call to val.chars().count() for every string. The expensive character count is now only performed when the start parameter is negative.

🎯 Why

The previous implementation iterated through each string's characters twice: once to get the character count and a second time to find the substring offsets. This double iteration is inefficient, especially for the common case where start is non-negative.

📊 Impact

This optimization provides a ~4.2% performance improvement in the substring utf8 by char benchmark.

  • Baseline: ~121ms
  • Optimized: ~116ms

🔬 Measurement

To verify the improvement, run the following benchmark and compare the results:

cargo bench -p arrow --bench substring_kernels --features="test_utils" -- "substring utf8 by char"

PR created automatically by Jules for task 18024824091953520663 started by @Dandandan

Avoids unconditional call to chars().count().

The `chars().count()` method iterates over the entire string, which is only necessary when handling negative start indices.

This change defers this expensive operation to the less common negative start path, resulting in a ~4.2% performance improvement in the "substring utf8 by char" benchmark.
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