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string getitem methods are slow

See original GitHub issue

related #2802

It seems that str[1] is significantly slower than .apply(lambda x: x[1])

See this So answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/18473330/1240268

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Created 10 years ago
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brandon-rhodescommented, Feb 15, 2020

@3vts Feel free to give it a try! I did not wind up with time to make progress on it, and my guess is that the project I was on that needed the extra performance found a workaround. To be honest, I had, alas, forgotten all about it in the intervening years.

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3vtscommented, Feb 15, 2020

Is this still an ongoing effort? I would like to give it a try

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