ArrowMetal GPU compute library listed by Apache Arrow and DataFusion
The Apache Arrow and Apache DataFusion projects have both listed ArrowMetal on their official pages. ArrowMetal is an open-source library that enables Apache Arrow compute operations to run on Apple silicon GPUs. The listings were added via pull requests on September 8th and October 9th, 2026, respectively, after review by project committers. The library allows data processing without copying buffers by utilizing the unified memory architecture of Apple hardware. ArrowMetal version 0.5.0, released in October 2026, includes a Polars engine and a DataFusion optimizer rule.
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