[DataFrame] Changing the _default_index fn to a remote function #1617
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What do these changes do?
Moving _default_index to a remote function speeds up creating a new DataFrame. Since _default_index will now return a futures object, the main thread is freed and returned to the user much quicker. This does not necessarily mean that the full computation has finished, but the main thread can continue running.
Updated Performance on Query against Pandas
Data: 76 MB of String Data
Machine: 2 Core Macbook
Partitions: 4
Pandas Benchmark:
%timeit pandas_df.query(query_func) # 172 ms
Ray:
%timeit ray_df.query(query_func) # 15.2 ms