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by lqdc13 4242 days ago
Dictionary performance is still slow from what I can't tell. Like 2x slower than Python last time I checked.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/hxfR70Ro...

I also find the dataframe library to be much harder to use/not much faster than pandas.

Great community though.
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johnmyleswhite 4241 days ago
Right now, DataFrames is handicapped by problems with how DataArrays was designed. With some revisions coming in Julia 0.4, it should be possible to fix a lot of the worst problems (esp. performance) with DataFrames.
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ViralBShah 4241 days ago
The combination of DataFrames and multi-threading will be really amazing, when we get there. I personally use it quite regularly for production work, over pandas - and as John says above, with Julia 0.4, DataFrames will be much better.

I think that being not faster than Pandas is pretty good, since it is written in C and heavily optimized.

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tomrod 4241 days ago
The dataframe dev is really responsive though. We worked through a bug together a few weeks back. Nice experience overall.
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sveme 4240 days ago
Something I love about Hackernews: the dataframe dev actually wrote a sister post to yours (John Myles White).
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