diff --git a/doc/source/io.rst b/doc/source/io.rst
index e338407361705..b027c7658f0e9 100644
--- a/doc/source/io.rst
+++ b/doc/source/io.rst
@@ -5208,85 +5208,112 @@ easy conversion to and from pandas.
 Performance Considerations
 --------------------------
 
-This is an informal comparison of various IO methods, using pandas 0.13.1.
+This is an informal comparison of various IO methods, using pandas
+0.20.3. Timings are machine dependent and small differences should be
+ignored.
 
 .. code-block:: ipython
 
-   In [1]: df = pd.DataFrame(randn(1000000,2),columns=list('AB'))
+   In [1]: sz = 1000000
+   In [2]: df = pd.DataFrame({'A': randn(sz), 'B': [1] * sz})
 
-   In [2]: df.info()
+   In [3]: df.info()
    <class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
-   Int64Index: 1000000 entries, 0 to 999999
+   RangeIndex: 1000000 entries, 0 to 999999
    Data columns (total 2 columns):
    A    1000000 non-null float64
-   B    1000000 non-null float64
-   dtypes: float64(2)
-   memory usage: 22.9 MB
+   B    1000000 non-null int64
+   dtypes: float64(1), int64(1)
+   memory usage: 15.3 MB
 
 Writing
 
 .. code-block:: ipython
 
    In [14]: %timeit test_sql_write(df)
-   1 loops, best of 3: 6.24 s per loop
+   2.37 s ± 36.6 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
 
    In [15]: %timeit test_hdf_fixed_write(df)
-   1 loops, best of 3: 237 ms per loop
+   194 ms ± 65.9 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
 
    In [26]: %timeit test_hdf_fixed_write_compress(df)
-   1 loops, best of 3: 245 ms per loop
+   119 ms ± 2.15 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
 
    In [16]: %timeit test_hdf_table_write(df)
-   1 loops, best of 3: 901 ms per loop
+   623 ms ± 125 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
 
    In [27]: %timeit test_hdf_table_write_compress(df)
-   1 loops, best of 3: 952 ms per loop
+   563 ms ± 23.7 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
 
    In [17]: %timeit test_csv_write(df)
-   1 loops, best of 3: 3.44 s per loop
+   3.13 s ± 49.9 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
+
+   In [30]: %timeit test_feather_write(df)
+   103 ms ± 5.88 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
+
+   In [31]: %timeit test_pickle_write(df)
+   109 ms ± 3.72 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
+
+   In [32]: %timeit test_pickle_write_compress(df)
+   3.33 s ± 55.2 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
 
 Reading
 
 .. code-block:: ipython
 
    In [18]: %timeit test_sql_read()
-   1 loops, best of 3: 766 ms per loop
+   1.35 s ± 14.7 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
 
    In [19]: %timeit test_hdf_fixed_read()
-   10 loops, best of 3: 19.1 ms per loop
+   14.3 ms ± 438 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
 
    In [28]: %timeit test_hdf_fixed_read_compress()
-   10 loops, best of 3: 36.3 ms per loop
+   23.5 ms ± 672 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
 
    In [20]: %timeit test_hdf_table_read()
-   10 loops, best of 3: 39 ms per loop
+   35.4 ms ± 314 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
 
    In [29]: %timeit test_hdf_table_read_compress()
-   10 loops, best of 3: 60.6 ms per loop
+   42.6 ms ± 2.1 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)
 
    In [22]: %timeit test_csv_read()
-   1 loops, best of 3: 620 ms per loop
+   516 ms ± 27.1 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
+
+   In [33]: %timeit test_feather_read()
+   4.06 ms ± 115 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
+
+   In [34]: %timeit test_pickle_read()
+   6.5 ms ± 172 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
+
+   In [35]: %timeit test_pickle_read_compress()
+   588 ms ± 3.57 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)
 
 Space on disk (in bytes)
 
 .. code-block:: none
 
-    25843712 Apr  8 14:11 test.sql
-    24007368 Apr  8 14:11 test_fixed.hdf
-    15580682 Apr  8 14:11 test_fixed_compress.hdf
-    24458444 Apr  8 14:11 test_table.hdf
-    16797283 Apr  8 14:11 test_table_compress.hdf
-    46152810 Apr  8 14:11 test.csv
+    34816000 Aug 21 18:00 test.sql
+    24009240 Aug 21 18:00 test_fixed.hdf
+     7919610 Aug 21 18:00 test_fixed_compress.hdf
+    24458892 Aug 21 18:00 test_table.hdf
+     8657116 Aug 21 18:00 test_table_compress.hdf
+    28520770 Aug 21 18:00 test.csv
+    16000248 Aug 21 18:00 test.feather
+    16000848 Aug 21 18:00 test.pkl
+     7554108 Aug 21 18:00 test.pkl.compress
 
 And here's the code
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-   import sqlite3
    import os
+   import pandas as pd
+   import sqlite3
+   from numpy.random import randn
    from pandas.io import sql
 
-   df = pd.DataFrame(randn(1000000,2),columns=list('AB'))
+   sz = 1000000
+   df = pd.DataFrame({'A': randn(sz), 'B': [1] * sz})
 
    def test_sql_write(df):
        if os.path.exists('test.sql'):
@@ -5329,3 +5356,21 @@ And here's the code
 
    def test_csv_read():
        pd.read_csv('test.csv',index_col=0)
+
+   def test_feather_write(df):
+       df.to_feather('test.feather')
+
+   def test_feather_read():
+       pd.read_feather('test.feather')
+
+   def test_pickle_write(df):
+       df.to_pickle('test.pkl')
+
+   def test_pickle_read():
+       pd.read_pickle('test.pkl')
+
+   def test_pickle_write_compress(df):
+       df.to_pickle('test.pkl.compress', compression='xz')
+
+   def test_pickle_read_compress():
+       pd.read_pickle('test.pkl.compress', compression='xz')