damccorm opened a new issue, #20875: URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/20875
Currently performing an operation on a deferred dataframe always produces a _new_ deferred dataframe. This means a call like to_pcollection(df.mean(), df.mean()), will produce two distinct PCollections duplicating the same computation. This is particularly problematic for the interactive use-case where, to_pcollection is used inside of ib.collect() in combination with PCollection caching. Collecting df.mean() two different times will duplicate the computation unnecessarily. We should cache the output expressions produced by operations to prevent this. We need to be mindful of inplace operations when implementing this: - Two calls to df.mean() should produce the same result iff df has not been mutated in between. - If the output of one call to df.mean() is mutated, it must not mutate the output of another call to df.mean(). Imported from Jira [BEAM-12245](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-12245). Original Jira may contain additional context. Reported by: bhulette. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
