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How fast/slow is your program? Does it take hours, minutes or seconds to process the file? Is it a time critical application?

These are questions you should ask yourself before starting to prematurely optimise your program.

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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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