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Thanks for your help Broswer and Abigail.
You are correct, I don't need to re-join the strings at the end, I would just modify my server to transmit each chunk in the array. However, I have no idea how long it'll take to send 5 chunks vs. 1, so the join may or may not be fair.
Since my server is single threaded, I'll modify it to have the current user's output buffer a global variable. Any methods which produce output can just tack their output onto there (without any need for passing strings or even string references among subroutines).
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