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Description
DataFrame.duplicated
correctly uses hashtable.duplicated_int64
a specialized routine, while core.series.IndexOpsMixin.duplicated
uses lib.duplicated
an object based one.
as its almost always better to factorize then use the fast routine, than to do object comparisons.
but YMMV, so needs a couple of perf tests.
In [3]: s = Series(np.random.randint(0,10000,size=100000))
In [4]: %timeit s.duplicated()
100 loops, best of 3: 5.75 ms per loop
In [6]: df = s.to_frame()
In [8]: %timeit df.duplicated()
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.86 ms per loop