reading csv in Julia is slow compared to Python

Question

reading large text / csv files in Julia takes a long time compared to Python. Here are the times to read a file whose size is 486.6 MB and has 153895 rows and 644 columns. <

Answer 1

There is a relatively new julia package called CSV.jl by Jacob Quinn that provides a much faster CSV parser, in many cases on par with pandas: https://github.com/JuliaData/CSV.jl