HOLY COW, BATMAN!!!

[Richard Gaskin]

Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:

> No turning back now... ;-)
> 
> just fyi, most of us rev users would consider 25 seconds
>  to process 140 lines of text as very slow...
> 
> Of course I never use progress bars. I've processed 2meg files of raw 
> text mailing lists
> (loaded into a variable of  course -- close to 20M lines) doing similar 
> "clean ups"
> of empty lines and other garbage... in under 5 seconds.
> 
> And, yes, several of us  also fell out of our chairs the first time we 
> saw this.
> 
>  I wonder if the replace (cr& cr) with cr would be even faster?

If all that's needed is to remove empty lines that should be another 
couple orders of magnitude faster....

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  Richard Gaskin
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