in reply to Re^6: use regular expressions across multiple lines from a very large input file
in thread use regular expressions across multiple lines from a very large input file

OK, but what for? From a certain block size on the speed improvement is negligible (overhead of joining and restarting a regex and so on)

And at the same time you have to worry about other processes which might reduce the available memory.

I rather prefer algos with a predictable amount of used resources.

Cheers Rolf

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