I think DataFusion is mature enough that we could plug in Gandiva into it.
Disclaimer: I work on the Arrow Rust implementation
Gandiva bindings is definitely something we should look into, but I'm guessing there's much lower hanging fruit within DataFusion in terms of optimizing, particularly for our use case.
I think with compute functions/kernels, we're sitting under a grapevine, so we'll be able to add a lot to Arrow without yet needing Gandiva bindings. The Rust stdsimd [0] work will also enable us to better use SIMD in ~ a year from now (I hope)