I guess that's nifty, but it makes it much less universal. It's also not clear to me why reading everything as a string would be slower. If anything, it seems t

I guess that's nifty, but it makes it much less universal. It's also not clear to me why reading everything as a string would be slower. If anything, it seems to me like it would be faster, since you wouldn't need to do type guessing. Full disclosure, I'm the author of 'xsv' and the thing I was most interested in here was performance.