in reply to Re^2: Creating very long strings from text files (DNA sequences)
in thread Creating very long strings from text files (DNA sequences)

set $/ to "\n": 4 minutes
Was that a typo? Did you mean: set $/ to "\n>" (with a greater-than sign). Because if you did it with just $/ set to "\n", then you haven't actually changed the important thing.

Of course, if that's just a typo, then i could see that my "solution" (which I didn't have any data to benchmark with... or a perl 5.8 install to benchmark against) doesn't help significantly... and that's entirely possible, but I'm curious, none-the-less. 

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