Speed of csvReader

[Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 13:42:11 UTC, Edwin van Leeuwen 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 09:39:30 UTC, data pulverizer 
> wrote:
>>   StopWatch sw;
>>   sw.start();
>>   auto buffer = std.file.readText("Acquisition_2009Q2.txt");
>>   auto records = csvReader!row_type(buffer, '|').array;
>>   sw.stop();
>
>
> Is it csvReader or readText that is slow? i.e. could you move 
> sw.start(); one line down (after the readText command) and see 
> how long just the csvReader part takes?

Please try this:

auto records = 
File("Acquisition_2009Q2.txt").byLine.joiner("\n").csvReader!row_type('|').array;

Can you put up some sample data and share the number of records 
in the file as well.