PERF: strftime is slow · Issue #44764 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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Reproducible Example

I found pd.DatatimeIndex.strftime is pretty slow when data is large.

In the following I made a simple benchmark. method_b first stores 'year', 'month', 'day', 'hour', 'minute', 'second', then convert them to string with f-formatter. Although it's written in python, the time spent is significantly lower.

import time import numpy as np import pandas as pd from joblib import Parallel, delayed

def timer(f): def inner(*args, **kwargs): s = time.time() result = f(*args, **kwargs) e = time.time() return e - s return inner

@timer def method_a(index): return index.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

@timer def method_b(index): attrs = ('year', 'month', 'day', 'hour', 'minute', 'second') parts = [getattr(index, at) for at in attrs] b = [] for year, month, day, hour, minute, second in zip(*parts): b.append(f'{year}-{month:02}-{day:02} {hour:02}:{minute:02}:{second:02}') b = pd.Index(b) return b

index = pd.date_range('2000', '2020', freq='1min')

@delayed def profile(p): n = int(10 ** p) time_a = method_a(index[:n]) time_b = method_b(index[:n]) return n, time_a, time_b

records = Parallel(10, verbose=10)(profile(p) for p in np.arange(1, 7.1, 0.1))

pd.DataFrame(records, columns=['n', 'time_a', 'time_b']).set_index('n').plot(figsize=(10, 8))

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 945c9ed
python : 3.8.10.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.8.0-63-generic
Version : #71-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 13 15:59:12 UTC 2021
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 1.3.4
numpy : 1.20.0
pytz : 2021.3
dateutil : 2.8.2
pip : 21.2.4
setuptools : 58.0.4
Cython : 0.29.24
pytest : 6.2.4
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 4.6.2
html5lib : 1.1
pymysql : 0.9.3
psycopg2 : 2.8.6 (dt dec pq3 ext lo64)
jinja2 : 2.11.3
IPython : 7.29.0
pandas_datareader: 0.9.0
bs4 : None
bottleneck : 1.3.2
fsspec : None
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.4.3
numexpr : 2.7.3
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.0.7
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 5.0.0
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.6.2
sqlalchemy : 1.4.22
tables : None
tabulate : 0.8.9
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlwt : None
numba : 0.54.1

Prior Performance

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