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In [44]: foo = Series(np.random.randn(100000))
In [45]: bar = Series(np.random.randn(100000))
In [46]: foo[::3] = np.nan
In [47]: bar[::4] = np.nan
In [48]: sfoo = foo.to_sparse(kind='integer')
In [49]: sbar = bar.to_sparse(kind='integer')
In [52]: timeit sfoo + sbar
100 loops, best of 3: 15.8 ms per loop
# implicitly kind='block
In [53]: sbar = bar.to_sparse()
In [54]: sfoo = foo.to_sparse()
In [55]: timeit sfoo + sbar
1 loops, best of 3: 217 ms per loop