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Possible autoray integration

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enhancement topic-arrays topic-lazy array
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Description

I'm opening this issue for discussion really.

I stumbled on autoray (Github) by @jcmgray which provides an abstract interface to a number of array types.

What struck me was the very general lazy compute system. This opens up the possibility of lazy-but-not-dask computation.

Related: https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2298 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1725 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/5081

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Research direction

Start by reading autoray's lazy computation documentation and the related xarray issues #2298, #1725, and #5081. This issue is discussion-only, so work is not defined until the project agrees on an integration scope and concrete completion criteria.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
data
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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