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Without flox, Xarray effectively shuffles — sorts the data to extract all values in a single group — and then runs the reduction group-by-group.
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Depending on data layout or "chunking" this shuffle can be quite expensive.
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+Here's a schematic of an array with 5 chunks arranged vertically, and each chunk has 10 elements each of which are colored by group.
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With flox installed, Xarray instead uses its parallel-friendly tree reduction.
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In many cases, this is a massive improvement.
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