This gets the census `== 'Dawson Creek'` query down to ~410ms from
~650ms.
That still seems much slower than it should be. Am I accidentally
doing a copy? Now to go learn how to profile C++ code...
For the statscan census set filtering on `== 'Dawson Creek'`, the query
goes from 980ms to 660ms.
This is expected, since the data isn't sorted by that column.
I'll try adding some scaffolding to do filtering at the row level, too.
We could also try unpacking the dictionary and testing the individual
values, although we may want some heuristics to decide whether it's
worth doing -- eg if < 10% of the rows have a unique value.
Ideally, this should be like a ~1ms query.
Colin Dellow