PERF: MultiIndex._engine use smaller dtypes by GianlucaFicarelli · Pull Request #58411 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

In [34]: n = np.iinfo(np.uint8).max - 1

In [35]: ser = pd.Series(range(n), index=pd.MultiIndex.from_arrays([range(n)]))

In [36]: ser.index._cache
Out[36]: {}

In [37]: ser.index._engine
Out[37]: <pandas.core.indexes.multi.MultiIndexUInt8Engine at 0x118e0fed0>

In [38]: ser.index._engine.values
Out[38]: 
array([  2,   3,   4,   5,   6,   7,   8,   9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,
        15,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20,  21,  22,  23,  24,  25,  26,  27,
        28,  29,  30,  31,  32,  33,  34,  35,  36,  37,  38,  39,  40,
        41,  42,  43,  44,  45,  46,  47,  48,  49,  50,  51,  52,  53,
        54,  55,  56,  57,  58,  59,  60,  61,  62,  63,  64,  65,  66,
        67,  68,  69,  70,  71,  72,  73,  74,  75,  76,  77,  78,  79,
        80,  81,  82,  83,  84,  85,  86,  87,  88,  89,  90,  91,  92,
        93,  94,  95,  96,  97,  98,  99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105,
       106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118,
       119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131,
       132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,
       145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157,
       158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170,
       171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183,
       184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196,
       197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209,
       210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222,
       223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235,
       236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248,
       249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255], dtype=uint8)

In [39]: n
Out[39]: 254

In [40]: ser.index._cache
Out[40]: 
{'levels': FrozenList([[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, ...]]),
 '_engine': <pandas.core.indexes.multi.MultiIndexUInt8Engine at 0x118e0fed0>}

In [41]: ser.loc[n+1] = n+1

In [42]: ser.index._cache
Out[42]: {'levels': FrozenList([[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, ...]])}

In [43]: ser.index._engine
Out[43]: <pandas.core.indexes.multi.MultiIndexUInt16Engine at 0x107288270>

In [44]: ser.index._cache
Out[44]: 
{'levels': FrozenList([[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, ...]]),
 '_engine': <pandas.core.indexes.multi.MultiIndexUInt16Engine at 0x107288270>}

So it seems that after calling ser.loc, the engine is automatically deleted from the cache (or the index is a copy, since id returns a different number)