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by Yomguithereal 118 days ago
TL;DR: Seeker struct from simd-csv Rust crate knows how to perform approximate random access in a CSV file [1]

The `xan` command line tool is therefore able to use it to perform single-pass map-reduce parallelization over CSV files and also binary search within sorted CSV data! [2]

[1]: https://docs.rs/simd-csv/latest/simd_csv/struct.Seeker.html [2]: https://github.com/medialab/xan/