diff --git a/cassandra/protocol.py b/cassandra/protocol.py
index 3cb13351..25311911 100644
--- a/cassandra/protocol.py
+++ b/cassandra/protocol.py
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ class ProtocolHandler(object):
     result decoding implementations.
     """
 
-    @classmethod    
+    @classmethod
     def encode_message(cls, msg, stream_id, protocol_version, compressor):
         """
         Encodes a message using the specified frame parameters, and compressor
diff --git a/docs/api/cassandra/protocol.rst b/docs/api/cassandra/protocol.rst
index cabf2b59..0d4df101 100644
--- a/docs/api/cassandra/protocol.rst
+++ b/docs/api/cassandra/protocol.rst
@@ -24,3 +24,17 @@ See :meth:`.Session.execute`, ::meth:`.Session.execute_async`, :attr:`.ResponseF
     .. automethod:: encode_message
 
     .. automethod:: decode_message
+
+Faster Deserialization
+----------------------
+When python-driver is compiled with Cython, it uses a Cython-based deserialization path
+to deserialize messages. There are two additional ProtocolHandler classes that can be
+used to deserialize response messages: the first is ``LazyProtocolHandler`` and the
+second is ``NumpyProtocolHandler``.They can be used as follows:
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    from cassandra.protocol import NumpyProtocolHandler, LazyProtocolHandler
+    s.client_protocol_handler = LazyProtocolHandler   # for a result iterator
+    s.client_protocol_handler = NumpyProtocolHandler  # for a dict of NumPy arrays as result
+