[jira] [Created] (ARROW-86) Implement zero-copy Arrow-to-Pandas conversion

["Uwe L. Korn (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Uwe L. Korn created ARROW-86:
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             Summary: Implement zero-copy Arrow-to-Pandas conversion
                 Key: ARROW-86
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-86
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Python
            Reporter: Uwe L. Korn


For this to work, we need:

 * a check if the Arrow Array could be represented as Pandas Series using the same memory buffer
 * a {{numpy.ndarray}} subclass that keeps a reference to the Arrow Array

With the NumPy C-API it is already possible to create a {{numpy.ndarray}} instance that uses the Arrow Array memory buffer internally but there is no way to keep track if the {{numpy.ndarray}} still lives or the underlying memory can be free'd.



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