Backport PR #49162 on branch 1.5.x (PERF: Fix performance regression for isin with mismatching dtypes) (#49165)

Backport PR #49162: PERF: Fix performance regression for isin with mismatching dtypes

Co-authored-by: Patrick Hoefler <[email protected]>

Author: meeseeksmachine

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.1.rst

@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ Fixed regressions
 - Fixed Regression in :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.apply` when user defined function is called on an empty dataframe (:issue:`47985`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.apply` when passing non-zero ``axis`` via keyword argument (:issue:`48656`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`Series.groupby` and :meth:`DataFrame.groupby` when the grouper is a nullable data type (e.g. :class:`Int64`) or a PyArrow-backed string array, contains null values, and ``dropna=False`` (:issue:`48794`)
+- Fixed performance regression in :meth:`Series.isin` with mismatching dtypes (:issue:`49162`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.to_parquet` raising when file name was specified as ``bytes`` (:issue:`48944`)
 - Fixed regression in :class:`ExcelWriter` where the ``book`` attribute could no longer be set; however setting this attribute is now deprecated and this ability will be removed in a future version of pandas (:issue:`48780`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.corrwith` when computing correlation on tied data with ``method="spearman"`` (:issue:`48826`)

pandas/core/algorithms.py

@@ -462,12 +462,14 @@ def isin(comps: AnyArrayLike, values: AnyArrayLike) -> npt.NDArray[np.bool_]:
         )
 
     if not isinstance(values, (ABCIndex, ABCSeries, ABCExtensionArray, np.ndarray)):
-        if not is_signed_integer_dtype(comps):
+        orig_values = values
+        values = _ensure_arraylike(list(values))
+
+        if is_numeric_dtype(values) and not is_signed_integer_dtype(comps):
             # GH#46485 Use object to avoid upcast to float64 later
             # TODO: Share with _find_common_type_compat
-            values = construct_1d_object_array_from_listlike(list(values))
-        else:
-            values = _ensure_arraylike(list(values))
+            values = construct_1d_object_array_from_listlike(list(orig_values))
+
     elif isinstance(values, ABCMultiIndex):
         # Avoid raising in extract_array
         values = np.array(values)