Copy-on-Write was first introduced in version 1.5.0. Starting from version 2.0 most of the optimizations that become possible through CoW are implemented and supported. All possible optimizations are supported starting from pandas 2.1.
CoW will be enabled by default in version 3.0.
PeterHamfelt
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Copy-on-Write was first introduced in version 1.5.0. Starting from version 2.0 most of the optimizations that become possible through CoW are implemented and supported. All possible optimizations are supported starting from pandas 2.1. CoW will be enabled by default in version 3.0.
References https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/copy_on_write.html#copy-on-write-cow