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Kirill Smelkov authored
Rationale --------- Array reference could be useful in situations where one needs to pass arrays between processes and instead of copying array data, leverage the fact that top-level array, for example ZBigArray, is already persisted separately, and only send small amount of information referencing data in question. Implementation -------------- BigArray is not regular NumPy array and so needs explicit support in ArrayRef code to find root object and indices. This patch adds such support via the following way: - when BigArray.__getitem__ creates VMA, it remembers in the VMA the top-level BigArray object under which this VMA was created. - when ArrayRef is finding root, it can detect such VMAs, because it will be pointed to by the most top regular ndarray's .base, and in turn gets top-level BigArray object from the VMA. - further all indices computations are performed, similarly to complete regular ndarrays case, on ndarrays root and a. But in the end .lo and .hi are adjusted for the corresponding offset of where root is inside whole BigArray. - there is no need to adjust .deref() at all. For remembering information into a VMA and also to be able to get (readonly) its mapping addresses _bigfile.c extension has to be extended a bit. Since we are now storing arbitrary python object attached to PyVMA - it can create cycles - and so PyVMA accordingly adjusted to support cyclic garbage collector. Please see the patch itself for more details and comments.
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