Add observed option for speed with many bins
#118
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When there are many bins in a binned dataframe producing all of them, even those that aren't actually filled, can consume a lot of memory and a lot more processing time. This new option enables the resulting dataframe to be much more sparse by only filling bins with non-zero. This can be combined with the
pad_missingoption that existed previously to force these bins to be added back in the merging step.Note that in the future this option might be automatically enabled / disabled in conjunction with
pad_missingsince this is really a performance optimisation control that a user often may not want to have to know about.