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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by mortehu on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:07PM (#28227171)
Just extracting string views can be fast, but converting numbers to and from text is very slow.
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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by veltas on Thursday August 19, 2021 @08:10AM (#28232783)
But significant compared to time to load the source in the first place? Or any processing that will come after?
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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by worik on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:29PM (#28229332)
It is a text format. So you will always have to do that conversion.

Binary formats have their own pain points - more of them actually

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