In Dask Array, is there any difference between a block and a chunk?
In the docs it seems like the two are used synonymously. E.g. here (at list item #3 they say block instead of chunk) or here.
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Chunks are basically the same thing as blocks for arrays. But chunk in this context is more like an action: to cut the whole dataset into chunks/blocks.
This action is also called partitioning in some contexts, particularly for dataframes and bags (which also have chunks, but they are not normally called blocks).
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