Looking for inspiration

[Beynon, Rob]

I'm writing tools that bash their way through thousands of lines of input text, and do some processing. 

I'd like to have a progress indicator displayed (and indeed, live the tm dials, in particular, that I just got for Xmas!).

 

But, how does one write a routine to indicate progress without imposing a penalty at each iteration? If I include the "line":

 

Display the progress bar for number of lines processed/ total number of lines

 

Than this has as many iterations as lines. 

 

I guess, if there has to be something in the main loop it should be fast, and then send a message to an externally progress display routine?

 

Is there a sneaky/subtle way around this?

Thoughts appreciated

 

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