Expunge as_frame conversions in Column algorithms #14491
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Description
Previously a number of algorithms on Columns first converted to a single column frame and called a frame-based algorithm (which calls directly into libcudf using the column we first thought of). This is unnecessary since we already have the column to hand when calling the same algorithm at the column level. Moreover, in many cases where the algorithm is a user-facing API, the frame-based approach does more work (for example conversions and dtype matching).
By removing this round trip we reduce some (unnecessary) overhead, and also make the memory footprint and behaviour of column-based methods more transparent.
as_frame
conversions in cudfColumn
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