From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-10-30T17:47:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Faster CSV parsing

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:07 PM, William James wrote:
> > ## Read, parse, and create csv records.
> >
> > # The program conforms to the csv specification at this site:
> > # http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm
> > # The only extra is that you can change the field-separator.
> > # For a field-separator other than a comma, for example
> > # a semicolon:
> > #   Csv.fs=";"
> > #
> > # After a record has been read and parsed,
> > # Csv.string contains the record in raw string format.
>
> Thanks for sharing this. You claim 'faster' CSV parsing. Faster than
> what,

Than Ruby's standard-lib csv.rb.

> and by how much? Got any benchmark results to share?

For my test file of 1,964,211 bytes, it's about 6.4 times as fast.