Dear Monks,
I have developed a web application to display items on the webpage from number of text files (around 200). I don't have control over these files. I have to sort the data obtained from files (20,000 records) and do other processing. The data needs to be current. The results I display is only few at a time ( 20) per page. These currently takes lot of time. Also when I display 2nd page, it is all over again. I also provide the search results from these files with similar mechanism. Obviously this is not very effective mechanism. We are not using database at this point.

I am looking for some good ideas.

Update: (after 25 minutes) Is there any solution if data doesn't need to be absolutely current when user goes to second page of listing or search results? This is highly personalized data, which I found out that, gets updated every hour.

Thanks.

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