You are tasked with optimizing a Snowpark application that performs sentiment analysis on customer reviews using a Python UDE The UDF uses a large pre-trained natural language processing (NLP) model stored in a file named 'sentiment_model.pkl'. The current implementation loads the model from the stage for each row of data processed, which is impacting performance. How can you optimize the application to load the model only once per worker process?
Correct Answer: B
Option B offers the most straightforward and efficient solution. By utilizing a global variable and loading the model only if it's 'None' , the model is loaded only once per worker process. The 'imports' clause ensures the model file is accessible to the UDF. Caching via '@cache' (A) might not work correctly with serialization/deserialization across processes. (C) pre imports at the session level but cache control is still missing. passing as parameter (D) doesn't address model only loads once per worker. (E) This technique is not directly supported for achieving per-worker initialization in standard Snowpark UDFs, making B a better and more commonly used approach.