Parameters
        ----------
        ascending : bool, default True
            If False, number in reverse, from length of group - 1 to 0.

        Notes
        -----
        this is currently implementing sort=False
        (though the default is sort=True) for groupby in general

def _cumcount_array(self, ascending=True):
        """
        Parameters
        ----------
        ascending : bool, default True
            If False, number in reverse, from length of group - 1 to 0.

        Notes
        -----
        this is currently implementing sort=False
        (though the default is sort=True) for groupby in general
        """
        ids, _, ngroups = self.grouper.group_info
        sorter = get_group_index_sorter(ids, ngroups)
        ids, count = ids[sorter], len(ids)

        if count == 0:
            return np.empty(0, dtype=np.int64)

        run = np.r_[True, ids[:-1] != ids[1:]]
        rep = np.diff(np.r_[np.nonzero(run)[0], count])
        out = (~run).cumsum()

        if ascending:
            out -= np.repeat(out[run], rep)
        else:
            out = np.repeat(out[np.r_[run[1:], True]], rep) - out

        rev = np.empty(count, dtype=np.intp)
        rev[sorter] = np.arange(count, dtype=np.intp)
        return out[rev].astype(np.int64, copy=False)