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API DesignCopy / view semanticsIndexingRelated to indexing on series/frames, not to indexes themselvesNeeds DiscussionRequires discussion from core team before further action
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opened on Apr 24, 2020

Migrating the discussion from #33597:

We can improve performance (and memory footprint) by returning views in more cases. The downsides are 1) the returned DataFrames are less-consolidated and 2) users may be relying on getting copies in some situations.

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