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Reproducible Example

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> cat = pd.Categorical(list("bac")*1_000_000)
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({"cat": cat, "codes": cat.codes})
>>> %timeit df.groupby("cat").sum()
120 ms ± 246 µs per loop. # v1.5.2
404 ms ± 2.24 ms per loop. # main

This is likely the same underlying perf bug as for #51680.

This is probably a blocker for v2.0.

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : aeafdd66e4f224f7dee84c40b211595c582c4509 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+1674.g259917c2ff.dirty numpy : 1.23.4 pytz : 2022.7 dateutil : 2.8.2 setuptools : 65.6.3 pip : 22.3.1 Cython : 0.29.33 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 within the margin of error of 22ms on both 1.5.3 and main

Comment From: rhshadrach

I'm not seeing anything jump out in the categorical groupby ASVs either:

https://asv-runner.github.io/asv-collection/pandas/

Comment From: rhshadrach

Could this be an issue that only shows up on Mac?

Comment From: jbrockmendel

im on mac (pre-M1)

Comment From: phofl

No, I have an m2 and not seeing it either

Comment From: phofl

I guess something on @topper-123 machine is off? Not sure but mine is more than 10 times faster, this seems a bit odd, getting around 10ms for both

Comment From: topper-123

Yeah, I had a build difference...

One was with python setup.py build_ext --inplace --force -j4 while the slow version was python setup.py build_ext --inplace --force -j4 --with-debugging-symbols. I can close this, sorry.