pydata/pandas — pull request #8045 by bashtage (2014-08-16 22:08:26+00:00)
Title: PERF: StataReader is slow due to excessive lookups for missing vales

Previous versions of StataReader did not correctly check for missing values.
This was fixed in a previous PR, but these checks had previously been
implemented on a value-by-value basis. This has now been changed to a
vectorized version that is orders of magnitude faster.

Additionally, a benchmark was added to monitor performance issues in the
future.

Closes #8040