SmarterCSV 1.16 Released — Faster Than CSV.read, Bad Row Quarantine, Instrumentation, New Features, Improved API

SmarterCSV 1.16 delivers 1.8×–8.6× faster performance than CSV.read through an overhauled C extension and optimized Ruby path, while introducing a bad-row quarantine system and instrumentation hooks (on_start, on_chunk, on_complete). The release also expands the API with SmarterCSV.parse for direct string parsing, row-by-row enumerators via SmarterCSV.each, and chunk-based processing—all with symbol-keyed hashes and automatic numeric conversion out of the box.