Mridul Seth

> (Wondering whether the performance improvement only becomes significant for large-N, say >~ million). array with ~500million.

Ahhhh. No it's supposed to give a red cross. I guess in the new iterations I removed that logic. I'll send a PR tomorrow to fix that.

@alexandrecesarba I started looking into this while going through https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/10888, do you still have the bandwidth to finish this up? I can cherry pick the commits and start a new...

I started looking a bit more into this and we just need to do change the default factory in `MetaData` to `dict` to make cosmology tests happy. I will create...

I'm trying to dig into the code here, and yes another +1 I guess on this issue :) Plus `SCEngine` seems to make it worse!

Alright I did some more digging in with memray and it doesn't seem like setting the index makes any difference (?) I ran the following script and the I have...

I am not able to properly reproduce this atleast with memray diagnostics. I would assume if I ran this bit of code for a lot more time, the resident memory...

Ohhhh, this produces a beautiful leak.

> Finally, I'd hope we can get rid of a lot of str(path), by ensuring get_package_data_* work - would seem worth doing that here, given how many people have now...

Thanks for the ping! I'll try to finish this up in the next week :)