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Re^3: In search of an efficient query abstractorby ikegami (Patriarch) |
on Dec 07, 2008 at 20:46 UTC ( [id://728784]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Are you doing the whole 8GB file at once? If your string starts with "a b c d", $query =~ s/\s{2,}/ /g; needs to copy 32GB of text. Just for the first 10 characters.
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