Feature Request: Non-casting binops

Presently, all column types that get a .mul(2) command are casted to Float64. This is not completely desirable. It is preferable that a type be retained unless it must be upcast, such as for overflow or int.mul(float). I’m pretty sure this is all supported by libcudf.

rapids@tcomer-NVIDIA:~/node/modules/demo/api-server$ node
Welcome to Node.js v18.2.0.
Type ".help" for more information.
> const {Series, Int32, Int64, Float32, Float64} = require('@rapidsai/cudf')
undefined
> let a = Series.new([0, 1]).cast(new Int32)
undefined
> let b = Series.new([0, 1]).cast(new Int64)
undefined
> a.mul(2).type
Float64 [Float] { precision: 2 }
> b.mul(2).type
Float64 [Float] { precision: 2 }

[thomcom]

I guess I’ll close this? 😃

[trxcllnt]

Yes all the binary ops already accept scalars as inputs.