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Home Depot and Lowe's Have Both Raised Their Dividends for 17 Straight Years. Which Stock Is the Smarter Buy Heading Into Earnings?

The rapid growth days of each company are probably over, but each stock remains an excellent choice for income investors.

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Twenty-Five Million Rows in Five Seconds, and How to Check

Benchmarks in this industry are mostly untrustworthy, and usually for the same reason: the person running them chose the shape of the work. So let us be precise about what this is and what it is not.

  • Interlace tool processes 25 million synthetic events in 5.11 seconds
  • CPU usage peaks at 270% during the benchmark
  • Memory usage stays under 2 GB with streamed Arrow RecordBatches

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