Hi Joseph,
what I wrote above made me believe that this could work:
datatest = Import["~/Desktop/allStarData4.csv", {"CSV"}, "TextDelimiters" -> "\r"];
and this runs in less than 0.41 seconds:
AbsoluteTiming[datatest = Import["~/Desktop/allStarData4.csv", {"CSV"}, "TextDelimiters" -> "\r"]; Length[datatest]]
gives:
{0.407668, 10001}
Cheers,
Marco
PS: It is probably related to this post .