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		nobleach 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X Extremely hard to tell an HR person, "Right-click on here in your Workday/Zendesk/Salesforce/etc UI and export a protobuf". Most of these folks in the business world LIVE in Excel/Spreadsheet land so a CSV feels very native. We can agree all day long that for actual data TRANSFER, CSV is riddled with edge cases. But it's what the customers are using.

heavenlyblue 3 months ago [–]

It's extremely unlikely they need to load spreadsheets large enough for 21Gb/s speed to matter

SteveNuts 3 months ago | | [–]

You’d be surprised. Big telcos use CSV and SFTP for CDR data, and there’s a lot of it.

nobleach 3 months ago | | [–]

Oh absolutely! I'm just mentioning why CSV is chosen over Protobufs.

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