[mikeskim]

This is supposed to be faster than XGBoost? I'm skeptical, but I'd like to know the specifics of the benchmarks and maybe an outline of the code / reasons why. It was not benchmarked by the same person who did https://github.com/szilard/benchm-ml

[kotach]

Vowpal Wabbit is IO limited. Meaning that there's no way it is slower than anything else on a single machine. On multiple machines it glides faster than light.

So, the benchmark is probably incorrect for VW.