Speed of csvReader

[Gerald Jansen via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 09:39:30 UTC, data pulverizer 
wrote:
> I have been reading large text files with D's csv file reader 
> and have found it slow compared to R's read.table function

This great blog post has an optimized FastReader for CSV files:

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2014/11/17/d-is-for-data-science.html