Speed of csvReader

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 11:08:18 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

> We should understand why D is slow in this case. :)
>
> Ali

fread source is here:

https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/blob/master/src/fread.c

Good luck trying to work through that (which explains why I'm 
using D). I don't know what their magic is, but data.table is 
many times faster than anything else in R, so I don't think it's 
trivial.