32 CPUs, wow! If you're interested, I think splitting the file should be very easy. To split it N ways I would:

  1. $start = 0
  2. seek() forward int($size / $N).
  3. Search forward for the next "^net" delimiter line, capturing start position in $here.
  4. Write out the chunk from $start to $here to a file "chunk.$N".
  5. Set $start = $here
  6. Loop to 2 until done.

Whether this is an overall win (it will take time) depends a lot on your disks. You'll have to tune $N to match the number of CPUs you can keep fed with data - set it too high and you'll go slower as your CPUs compete for disk access and slow each other down.

-sam

In reply to Re^3: Looking for ways to speed up the parsing of a file... by samtregar
in thread Looking for ways to speed up the parsing of a file... by fiddler42

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