Improve the performance of instantiating a Series object with dictionary data and a datetimeindex

[nateyoder]

The current code path always results in an exception on:

pandas/pandas/core/series.py

Line 191 in 3ac41ab

data = lib.fast_multiget(data, index.astype('O'),

which is then caught. Only a slight performance advantage is seen but hopefully the code change makes it less confusing for newcomers like me.

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

dr = pd.date_range(
            start=datetime(2015, 10, 26),
            end=datetime(2016, 1, 1),
            freq='10s'
        )
data = {d: v for d, v in zip(dr, range(len(dr)))}
s = Series(data=data, index=dr)

Problem description

The current code path always results in an exception on:

pandas/pandas/core/series.py

Line 191 in 3ac41ab

data = lib.fast_multiget(data, index.astype('O'),

which is then caught. Only a slight performance advantage is seen but hopefully the code change makes it less confusing for newcomers like me.

ASV output of new benchmark
Running 2 total benchmarks (2 commits * 1 environments * 1 benchmarks)
[ 0.00%] · For pandas commit hash 5f05fdc:
[ 0.00%] ·· Building for conda-py2.7-Cython-matplotlib-numexpr-numpy-openpyxl-pytables-scipy-sqlalchemy-xlrd-xlsxwriter-xlwt.................................
[ 0.00%] ·· Benchmarking conda-py2.7-Cython-matplotlib-numexpr-numpy-openpyxl-pytables-scipy-sqlalchemy-xlrd-xlsxwriter-xlwt
[ 50.00%] ··· Running ...x.time_series_constructor_no_data_datetime_index 3.26s
[ 50.00%] · For pandas commit hash 3ba2cff:
[ 50.00%] ·· Building for conda-py2.7-Cython-matplotlib-numexpr-numpy-openpyxl-pytables-scipy-sqlalchemy-xlrd-xlsxwriter-xlwt...
[ 50.00%] ·· Benchmarking conda-py2.7-Cython-matplotlib-numexpr-numpy-openpyxl-pytables-scipy-sqlalchemy-xlrd-xlsxwriter-xlwt
[100.00%] ··· Running ...x.time_series_constructor_no_data_datetime_index 3.77s before after ratio
[3ba2cff] [5f05fdc]

• 3.77s      3.26s      0.87  series_methods.series_constructor_dict_data_datetime_index.time_series_constructor_no_data_datetime_index