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Polars Buffers Are Immutable: The Refcounted Storage Behind Every Column

Oct 21, 2026 14 min read Jay Hubbert

The buffer layer of Polars is deliberately dumb: an immutable (ptr, length) view over a hand-rolled refcounted storage, with all growth pushed into the mutable builders.

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