From c5c44e85df1e3a55fd1449f2b46c3b16298e5f37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris <cbartak@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:35:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] PERF: fast inf checking in to_excel

---
 asv_bench/asv.conf.json         |  1 +
 doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt |  2 ++
 pandas/core/format.py           |  4 ++--
 pandas/lib.pyx                  | 12 ++++++++++++
 pandas/tests/test_lib.py        | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/asv_bench/asv.conf.json b/asv_bench/asv.conf.json
index dcea59545aae3..6a739873a032f 100644
--- a/asv_bench/asv.conf.json
+++ b/asv_bench/asv.conf.json
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
         "numexpr": [],
         "pytables": [],
         "openpyxl": [],
+        "xlsxwriter": [],
         "xlrd": [],
         "xlwt": []
     },
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt
index e9614ec4f2290..05c99e38e8511 100755
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ Performance Improvements
 - Release the GIL on most datetime field operations (e.g. ``DatetimeIndex.year``, ``Series.dt.year``), normalization, and conversion to and from ``Period``, ``DatetimeIndex.to_period`` and ``PeriodIndex.to_timestamp`` (:issue:`11263`)
 
 
+- Improved performance to ``to_excel`` (:issue:`11352`)
+
 .. _whatsnew_0171.bug_fixes:
 
 Bug Fixes
diff --git a/pandas/core/format.py b/pandas/core/format.py
index e4aa1eac248d5..4a3b1d02c9422 100644
--- a/pandas/core/format.py
+++ b/pandas/core/format.py
@@ -1708,9 +1708,9 @@ def _format_value(self, val):
         if lib.checknull(val):
             val = self.na_rep
         elif com.is_float(val):
-            if np.isposinf(val):
+            if lib.isposinf_scalar(val):
                 val = self.inf_rep
-            elif np.isneginf(val):
+            elif lib.isneginf_scalar(val):
                 val = '-%s' % self.inf_rep
             elif self.float_format is not None:
                 val = float(self.float_format % val)
diff --git a/pandas/lib.pyx b/pandas/lib.pyx
index 2b4974155d44c..74842d9a165fe 100644
--- a/pandas/lib.pyx
+++ b/pandas/lib.pyx
@@ -269,6 +269,18 @@ cpdef checknull_old(object val):
     else:
         return util._checknull(val)
 
+cpdef isposinf_scalar(object val):
+    if util.is_float_object(val) and val == INF:
+        return True
+    else:
+        return False
+
+cpdef isneginf_scalar(object val):
+    if util.is_float_object(val) and val == NEGINF:
+        return True
+    else:
+        return False
+
 def isscalar(object val):
     """
     Return True if given value is scalar.
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_lib.py b/pandas/tests/test_lib.py
index cfc98f5c20360..a24f71482c404 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_lib.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_lib.py
@@ -161,6 +161,19 @@ def test_maybe_indices_to_slice_middle(self):
             self.assert_numpy_array_equal(maybe_slice, indices)
             self.assert_numpy_array_equal(target[indices], target[maybe_slice])
 
+    def test_isinf_scalar(self):
+        #GH 11352
+        self.assertTrue(lib.isposinf_scalar(float('inf')))
+        self.assertTrue(lib.isposinf_scalar(np.inf))
+        self.assertFalse(lib.isposinf_scalar(-np.inf))
+        self.assertFalse(lib.isposinf_scalar(1))
+        self.assertFalse(lib.isposinf_scalar('a'))
+
+        self.assertTrue(lib.isneginf_scalar(float('-inf')))
+        self.assertTrue(lib.isneginf_scalar(-np.inf))
+        self.assertFalse(lib.isneginf_scalar(np.inf))
+        self.assertFalse(lib.isneginf_scalar(1))
+        self.assertFalse(lib.isneginf_scalar('a'))
 
 class Testisscalar(tm.TestCase):
 
@@ -232,4 +245,4 @@ def test_lisscalar_pandas_containers(self):
     import nose
 
     nose.runmodule(argv=[__file__, '-vvs', '-x', '--pdb', '--pdb-failure'],
-                   exit=False)
\ No newline at end of file
+                   exit=False)