diff --git a/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py b/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py
index e4d9896096..172d21c375 100644
--- a/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py
+++ b/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py
@@ -2545,7 +2545,7 @@ class _TablePartition:
 
 
 def _determine_partitions(spec: PartitionSpec, schema: Schema, arrow_table: pa.Table) -> List[_TablePartition]:
-    """Based on the iceberg table partition spec, slice the arrow table into partitions with their keys.
+    """Based on the iceberg table partition spec, filter the arrow table into partitions with their keys.
 
     Example:
     Input:
@@ -2554,17 +2554,9 @@ def _determine_partitions(spec: PartitionSpec, schema: Schema, arrow_table: pa.T
      'n_legs': [2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 100],
      'animal': ["Flamingo", "Parrot", "Parrot", "Dog", "Horse", "Horse", "Horse","Brittle stars", "Centipede"]}.
     The algorithm:
-    Firstly we group the rows into partitions by sorting with sort order [('n_legs', 'descending'), ('year', 'descending')]
-    and null_placement of "at_end".
-    This gives the same table as raw input.
-    Then we sort_indices using reverse order of [('n_legs', 'descending'), ('year', 'descending')]
-    and null_placement : "at_start".
-    This gives:
-    [8, 7, 4, 5, 6, 3, 1, 2, 0]
-    Based on this we get partition groups of indices:
-    [{'offset': 8, 'length': 1}, {'offset': 7, 'length': 1}, {'offset': 4, 'length': 3}, {'offset': 3, 'length': 1}, {'offset': 1, 'length': 2}, {'offset': 0, 'length': 1}]
-    We then retrieve the partition keys by offsets.
-    And slice the arrow table by offsets and lengths of each partition.
+    - We determine the set of unique partition keys
+    - Then we produce a set of partitions by filtering on each of the combinations
+    - We combine the chunks to create a copy to avoid GIL congestion on the original table
     """
     # Assign unique names to columns where the partition transform has been applied
     # to avoid conflicts
diff --git a/pyiceberg/partitioning.py b/pyiceberg/partitioning.py
index b3ab763bbd..6ca725b12c 100644
--- a/pyiceberg/partitioning.py
+++ b/pyiceberg/partitioning.py
@@ -414,7 +414,9 @@ def partition_record_value(partition_field: PartitionField, value: Any, schema:
     the final partition record value.
     """
     iceberg_type = schema.find_field(name_or_id=partition_field.source_id).field_type
-    iceberg_typed_value = _to_partition_representation(iceberg_type, value)
+    if not isinstance(value, int):
+        # When adding files, it can be that we still need to convert from logical types to physical types
+        iceberg_typed_value = _to_partition_representation(iceberg_type, value)
     transformed_value = partition_field.transform.transform(iceberg_type)(iceberg_typed_value)
     return transformed_value
 
@@ -426,13 +428,8 @@ def _to_partition_representation(type: IcebergType, value: Any) -> Any:
 
 @_to_partition_representation.register(TimestampType)
 @_to_partition_representation.register(TimestamptzType)
-def _(type: IcebergType, value: Optional[Union[datetime, int]]) -> Optional[int]:
-    if value is None:
-        return None
-    elif isinstance(value, int):
-        return value
-    else:
-        return datetime_to_micros(value)
+def _(type: IcebergType, value: Optional[datetime]) -> Optional[int]:
+    return datetime_to_micros(value) if value is not None else None
 
 
 @_to_partition_representation.register(DateType)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dcdb5e7156..c71818e7ff 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1220,6 +1220,7 @@ markers = [
   "adls: marks a test as requiring access to adls compliant storage (use with --adls.account-name, --adls.account-key, and --adls.endpoint args)",
   "integration: marks integration tests against Apache Spark",
   "gcs: marks a test as requiring access to gcs compliant storage (use with --gs.token, --gs.project, and --gs.endpoint)",
+  "benchmark: collection of tests to validate read/write performance before and after a change"
 ]
 
 # Turns a warning into an error