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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6837#issuecomment-1197113605,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/6837,1197113605,IC_kwDOAMm_X85HWoEF,2443309,2022-07-27T18:02:39Z,2022-07-27T18:02:39Z,MEMBER,"While there is overlap in the behavior here, I've always thought of these two methods as having distinct applications. `.compute()` is a Dask collection method. `.load()`, which predates Xarray's Dask integration, was originally meant to load data from our lazy loading backend arrays (e.g. a netCDF file). 

> Edit: up until I read this issue, I somehow assumed compute would only work with dask while load would also load our lazy array implementation into memory. Not sure how I got that impression, but maybe that's another argument to remove / align load?

This was my impression as well but now I understand that the primary difference is that `load` is inplace while `compute` is not.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1319621859