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[jira] [Created] (ARROW-364) [Python] Multithreaded conversion between Arrow record batches as NumPy arrays (for pandas)

Wes McKinney created ARROW-364:
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             Summary: [Python] Multithreaded conversion between Arrow record batches as NumPy arrays (for pandas)
                 Key: ARROW-364
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-364
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Python
            Reporter: Wes McKinney


This only impacts columns that are not zero-copyable. The GIL only needs to be held while invoking C API functions like {{PyArray_SimpleNew}} or {{PyString_FromStringAndSize}}. If there are many string columns, we may be concerned over GIL contention



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