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Reproducible Example
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> cat = pd.Categorical(list("bac") * 1_000_000)
>>> %timeit pd.unique(cat._codes)
6.62 ms ± 9.54 µs per loop # v1.5.2
45 ms ± 520 µs per loop # main
>>> %timeit pd.unique(cat)
6.64 ms ± 38.4 µs per loop # v1.5.2
44.8 ms ± 520 µs per loop # main
Installed Versions
INSTALLED VERSIONS
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commit : f94386498f45de70d743a08ebcc334a3ef7c198d
python : 3.9.7.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Darwin
OS-release : 22.3.0
Version : Darwin Kernel Version 22.3.0: Mon Jan 30 20:39:35 PST 2023; root:xnu-8792.81.3~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103
machine : arm64
processor : arm
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
LOCALE : None.UTF-8
pandas : 2.0.0.dev0+1673.gf94386498f
numpy : 1.23.4
pytz : 2022.7
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 65.6.3
pip : 22.3.1
Cython : 0.29.32
pytest : 7.1.2
hypothesis : 6.37.0
sphinx : 5.0.2
blosc : 1.10.6
feather : None
xlsxwriter : 3.0.3
lxml.etree : 4.9.1
html5lib : None
pymysql : 1.0.2
psycopg2 : 2.9.5
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 8.9.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.11.1
bottleneck : 1.3.5
brotli :
fastparquet : 0.8.3
fsspec : 2022.11.0
gcsfs : 2022.11.0
matplotlib : 3.6.2
numba : 0.56.4
numexpr : 2.8.4
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.0.10
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 9.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : 1.0.10
s3fs : 2022.11.0
scipy : 1.9.1
snappy : None
sqlalchemy : 1.4.43
tables : 3.7.0
tabulate : 0.9.0
xarray : None
xlrd : 2.0.1
zstandard : 0.18.0
tzdata : None
qtpy : 2.2.0
pyqt5 : None
Prior Performance
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Comment From: jbrockmendel
I get 12.4/12.5 ms for main and 12.7/12.7 ms on 1.5.3
Comment From: phofl
Can not see any difference on my machine
1.5.3
%timeit pd.unique(cat._codes)
6.32 ms ± 34.9 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
%timeit pd.unique(cat)
6.33 ms ± 46.5 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
main
%timeit pd.unique(cat._codes)
6.31 ms ± 43.6 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
%timeit pd.unique(cat)
6.39 ms ± 43.7 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
Comment From: phofl
We would have noticed at least the codes case in our benchmarks as well
Comment From: topper-123
I had a difference in build configuration between the versions. I'll close this. Same with the other.