we do not fully control memory in pandas currently; its defered to numpy, so a view() rarely makes sense, esp since we will change the dtype appropriate upon setting, breaking the view association.

In [35]: s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3])

In [36]: s_view = s.view()

In [39]: s_view
Out[39]: 
0    4.940656e-324
1    9.881313e-324
2    1.482197e-323
dtype: float64

we should just remove .view() entirely.