CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R

Re:CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster tha... by leovailati on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:23PM (#24747423)

Disruption is the price of progress. Like cars with electric motors vs combustion engines, sometimes you have to start from scratch. You can't just keep improving combustion engines forever, you eventually reach a technological limit.

To your point though, I do see a lot of unnecessary disruption particularly in the web dev world. I think people like working on new stuff. It's exciting to take the first steps, see order of magnitude improvements every commit.

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Re:CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster tha... by eesmith on Sunday October 11, 2020 @03:29PM (#24748358)

As an aside, I think that's a poor analogy. Electric cars have been around since the late 1800s, only a decade or two after the first internal combustion engine, and for a while set land speed records. The last 30 years of electric cars did not start from scratch.

Electric motors reached a technological plateau. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car points out, it required MOSFET power converters and lithium-ion batteries. Before then, it could appear that it reached a technological limit.

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Re:CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster tha... by leovailati on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:38PM (#24749731)

Fair point! I guess I meant the entire powertrain, not just the motor per se.

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