Re: quickest way to process log file

In article <hbciop$654$4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
gazelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenny McCormack) wrote:

2) The fact that large data processing tasks can take a long time.
Maybe the real solution is: Get a faster machine.

It's likely that the main bottleneck is reading the file from disk an
uncompressing it. If there aren't other CPU-intensive tasks using the
machine at the same time, it probably doesn't matter which form of
comparison you use, because they're both faster than the disk.

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