Since hashing doesn't need to know about logical types, we can do the following:

• Use same generated code for both BinaryType and StringType (and LargeBinary/LargeString)

• Use same generated code for primitive types having the same byte width

  These two changes should reduce binary size and improve compilation speed

Reporter: Wes McKinney / @wesm
Assignee: Wes McKinney / @wesm

Related issues:

• [C++] C++ array kernels framework and execution buildout (umbrella issue) (is a child of)
• [C++] Reduce shared library / binary code size (umbrella issue) (is related to)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #7528

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