A planning-department intern asks why cuDF tables can be handed to other RAPIDS steps without a CSV round-trip. What keeps those GPU frames cheap to share?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
cuDF tables can move to the next RAPIDS step without a CSV round-trip because they sit on Apache Arrow columnar memory. Text dumps, Triton, and NCCL are not that interchange.
Full Explanation
RAPIDS data frames sit on Apache Arrow columnar memory, so prep can pass tables without serializing to text. That is the associate reason a cuDF frame can move to the next RAPIDS step cheaply. CSV round-trips, Triton, and NCCL are the wrong interchange story. No invented zero-copy flag names are required.