How to optimize struct for speed?

General Usage Performance
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Trying to understand why the solution proposed by @Dan using this function
Tables.columntype(sch, :Close) is much faster than the others, I came to narrow down the reason for the difference in the use of structures in a similar way (if I understand correctly) to what was discussed here.

julia> using CSV, Tables, DataFrames, Dates, TSFrames

julia> df=CSV.read("table.txt",DataFrame,delim=' ', ignorerepeated=true);    

julia> tsdf=TSFrame(df);

julia> sch = Tables.schema(tsdf)
Tables.Schema:
 :Index   Date
 :Open    Float64
 :High    Float64
 :Low     Float64
 :Close   Float64
 :Volume  Float64

julia> using BenchmarkTools

julia> n,t= sch.names,sch.types
((:Index, :Open, :High, :Low, :Close, :Volume), (Date, Float64, Float64, Float64, Float64, Float64))

julia> @btime     t[findfirst(==(:Close),$n)]
  191.888 ns (0 allocations: 0 bytes)
Float64

julia> n,t= sch.names,Tuple{sch.types...}
((:Index, :Open, :High, :Low, :Close, :Volume), Tuple{Date, Vararg{Float64, 5}})

julia> @btime     fieldtype(t, findfirst(==(:Close),$n))
  10.010 ns (0 allocations: 0 bytes)
Float64

julia> @btime Tables.columntype(sch, :Close)
  12.813 ns (0 allocations: 0 bytes)
Float64

What I couldn’t delve into(*) is why the fieldtype(Tuple{t...},i) function is so much faster than getindex(t,i).

(*) ```
julia> @edit fieldtype(t, findfirst(==(:Close),n))
ERROR: could not determine location of method definition
Stacktrace: