Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

docs: CSV Kit comparison is out-of-date #293

Open
wants to merge 1 commit into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open

docs: CSV Kit comparison is out-of-date #293

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 0 additions & 4 deletions README.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -103,10 +103,6 @@ $ xsv stats worldcitiespop.csv --everything | xsv table
Which cuts it down to about 8 seconds on my machine. (And creating the index
takes less than 2 seconds.)

Notably, the same type of "statistics" command in another
[CSV command line toolkit](https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/)
takes about 2 minutes to produce similar statistics on the same data set.

Creating an index gives us more than just faster statistics gathering. It also
makes slice operations extremely fast because *only the sliced portion* has to
be parsed. For example, let's say you wanted to grab the last 10 records:
Expand Down