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Antoine Pitrou reassigned ARROW-2052:
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Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
> Unify OwnedRef and ScopedRef
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> Key: ARROW-2052
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2052
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Python
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
> Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
> Priority: Trivial
> Labels: pull-request-available
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> Currently {{OwnedRef}} and {{ScopedRef}} have similar semantics with small
> differences. Furtheremore, the naming distinction isn't obvious.
> I propose to unify them as a single {{OwnedRef}} class with the following
> characteristics:
> - doesn't take the GIL automatically
> - has a {{release()}} method that decrefs the pointer (and sets the internal
> copy to NULL) before returning it
> - has a {{detach()}} method that returns the pointer (and sets the internal
> copy to NULL) without decrefing it
> For the rare situations where an {{OwnedRef}} may be destroyed with the GIL
> released, a {{OwnedRefNoGIL}} derived class would also be proposed (the
> naming scheme follows Cython here).
> Opinions / comments?
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