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You may want to also benchmark the "300 lines of regex match statements". These statements may be taking more time than the I/O, so don't rule them out. For example, could a simple "index" replace some of the regex tests. Also look at the order of the tests, sometimes just reordering the sequence of tests will improve performance.

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