BUG: script illustrating panel-as-table slowness

Author: wesm

scripts/hdfstore_panel_perf.py

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+from pandas import *
+from pandas.util.testing import rands
+
+i, j, k = 1, 10000, 500
+
+panel = Panel(np.random.randn(i, j, k),
+              items=[rands(10) for _ in xrange(i)],
+              major_axis=[rands(10) for _ in xrange(j)],
+              minor_axis=[rands(10) for _ in xrange(k)])
+
+
+store = HDFStore('test.h5')
+store.put('test_panel', panel, table=True)
+
+retrieved = store['test_panel']