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Re:CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster tha... by coldtea on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:34AM (#24751959)
>You may be missing the point of the comparison, which is this: to compare the performance of the de facto standard CSV parsers of each system when used the way that a typical user would use them, i.e. to parse a CSV file into a data frame.

Well, in Python typically one would use pandas "to parse a CSV file into a data frame", not the standard csv parser (which doesn't deal with data frames anyway), no?

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Re:CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster tha... by cbkeller on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:47AM (#24752020)
That’s why Pandas read_csv is what they benchmarked
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Re:CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster tha... by coldtea on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:06AM (#24752111)
Ah, alrighty then.
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