julia> using ReadStatTables
julia> @time readstat("examples/firm_events.dta") |> DataFrame
1.117799 seconds (33.24 M allocations: 714.860 MiB, 6.40% gc time, 224.16% compilation time: 11% of which was recompilation)
733860×11 DataFrame
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julia> using StatFiles
julia> @time load("examples/firm_events.dta") |> DataFrame
4.578841 seconds (16.14 M allocations: 405.857 MiB, 40.16% gc time)
733860×11 DataFrame
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