Speed of csvReader

[Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 17:10:39 UTC, data pulverizer 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 16:01:33 UTC, wobbles wrote:
>> Interesting that reading a file is so slow.
>>
>> Your timings from R, is that including reading the file also?
>
> Yes, its just insane isn't it?

It is insane. Earlier in the thread we were tackling the wrong 
problem clearly. Hence the adage, "measure first" :-/.

As suggested by Edwin van Leeuwen, can you give us a timing of:
auto records = File("Acquisition_2009Q2.txt", "r").byLine.map!(a 
=> a.split("|").array).array;

Thanks,
Saurabh