Ah, much better. Now I can test it! Here are the results from my benchmark against /usr/dict/words, 100,000 iterations (my final code above is "new" and your code is "mjd"): 
Benchmark: timing 100000 iterations of mjd, new, original...
       mjd: 17 wallclock secs (16.86 usr +  0.00 sys = 16.86 CPU) @ 59
+31.20/s (n=100000)
       new:  3 wallclock secs ( 2.70 usr +  0.01 sys =  2.71 CPU) @ 36
+900.37/s (n=100000)
  original: 17 wallclock secs (12.87 usr +  0.01 sys = 12.88 CPU) @ 77
+63.98/s (n=100000)
            Rate      mjd original      new
mjd       5931/s       --     -24%     -84%
original  7764/s      31%       --     -79%
new      36900/s     522%     375%       --

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It looks like this solution is actually slower than the original...

-sam

In reply to Re: Re: Finding all substrings by samtregar
in thread Finding all substrings by TheHobbit

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