Thanks for the input! You, Grandfather and 1nickt have given some ideas to work on.

My single threaded code uses a hash for the output, but I don't need to do that. Each thread can push a ref to Array (a row) onto a common output queue and I can deal with that after everybody is finished. Converting 80K rows to a hash or sorting this is a "no brainer" compared with the time it takes to run the regex.

I wrote the build_regex() function back in 2007 and I'm at the point where what was easily fast enough a decade ago no longer is. I will be rethinking the algorithm, but if I can "juice this baby up by a factor of 3-4", that will give me enough time to ponder a new approach to the problem.

In reply to Re^2: Multi-thread combining the results together by Marshall
in thread Multi-thread combining the results together by Marshall

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