Time for Daffodil to parse a file containing 5-million records, each record has 132 characters:
Daffodil version 3.6 took 15 minutes Daffodil version 3.7 took 12.5 minutes Daffodil version 3.8 took 12.6 minutes Daffodil version 3.9 took 13.9 minutes The performance of Daffodil has steadily declined since version 3.7. Daffodil is now 11.3% slower than it was in version 3.7.