Follow up to Jan's finding here : https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/2533#issuecomment-458399597 With `setDTthreads(1)` he found a performance drop with 1.12.0 : - 8 groups 7.7s is now 12.8s 9.8s is now 15.8s - 1e6 groups 6s is now 12.4s 7.6s is now 17.6s