1 worker: 9.437 secs. 2 workers: 4.480 secs. 3 workers: 3.248 secs. 4 workers: 3.236 secs. 8 workers: 3.240 secs. #### mce_flow_f { chunk_size => '24m', max_workers => 1, use_slurpio => 1, }, sub { }, 'Dictionary2GB.txt'; #### use strict; use warnings; my $size = 24 * 1024 * 1024; open my $fh, '<', 'Dictionary2GB.txt' or die "$!"; while ( read( $fh, my $b, $size ) ) { $b .= <$fh>; } close $fh;