Speeding up text file parser (BLAST tabular format)

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 13:50:22 UTC, Fredrik Boulund 
wrote:
> On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 13:05:32 UTC, Andrea Fontana 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Thanks for the suggestions! I'm not too familiar with compiled 
> languages like this, I've mainly written small programs in D 
> and run them via `rdmd` in a scripting language fashion. I'll 
> read up on what the different compile flags do (I knew about 
> -O, but I'm not sure what the others do).
>
> Unfortunately I cannot get LDC working on my system. It seems 
> to fail finding some shared library when I download the binary 
> released, and I can't figure out how to make it compile. I 
> haven't really given GDC a try yet. I'll see what I can do.
>
> Running the original D code I posted before with the flags you 
> suggested reduced the runtime by about 2 seconds on average.

what system are you on? What are the error messages you are 
getting?