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		mortehu on Aug 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Time to retire the CSV? Just extracting string views can be fast, but converting numbers to and from text is very slow.

veltas on Aug 19, 2021 | [–]

But significant compared to time to load the source in the first place? Or any processing that will come after?

worik on Aug 19, 2021 | [–]

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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