Fix usage of fast_multiget with index which was always throwing an exception that was then caught; add ASV that show slight improvement

Author: nateyoder

asv_bench/benchmarks/series_methods.py

@@ -15,6 +15,21 @@ def time_series_constructor_no_data_datetime_index(self):
         Series(data=None, index=self.dr)
 
 
+class series_constructor_dict_data_datetime_index(object):
+    goal_time = 0.2
+
+    def setup(self):
+        self.dr = pd.date_range(
+            start=datetime(2015, 10, 26),
+            end=datetime(2016, 1, 1),
+            freq='10s'
+        )  # ~500k long
+        self.data = {d: v for d, v in zip(self.dr, range(len(self.dr)))}
+
+    def time_series_constructor_no_data_datetime_index(self):
+        Series(data=self.data, index=self.dr)
+
+
 class series_isin_int64(object):
     goal_time = 0.2
 

pandas/core/series.py

@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ def __init__(self, data=None, index=None, dtype=None, name=None,
                         if len(data):
                             # coerce back to datetime objects for lookup
                             data = _dict_compat(data)
-                            data = lib.fast_multiget(data, index.astype('O'),
+                            data = lib.fast_multiget(data, index.asobject.values,
                                                      default=np.nan)
                         else:
                             data = np.nan