Speeding up text file parser (BLAST tabular format)

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 14:25:04 UTC, Fredrik Boulund 
wrote:
> On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 14:14:18 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> what system are you on? What are the error messages you are 
>> getting?
>
> I really appreciate your will to try to help me out. This is 
> what ldd shows on the latest binary release of LDC on my 
> machine. I'm on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 system.
>
> [boulund at terra ~]$ ldd 
> ~/apps/ldc2-0.16.0-alpha2-linux-x86_64/bin/ldc2
> /home/boulund/apps/ldc2-0.16.0-alpha2-linux-x86_64/bin/ldc2: 
> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by 
> /home/boulund/apps/ldc2-0.16.0-alpha2-linux-x86_64/bin/ldc2)
> /home/boulund/apps/ldc2-0.16.0-alpha2-linux-x86_64/bin/ldc2: 
> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by 
> /home/boulund/apps/ldc2-0.16.0-alpha2-linux-x86_64/bin/ldc2)
>         linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff623ff000)
>         libconfig.so.8 => 
> /home/boulund/apps/ldc2-0.16.0-alpha2-linux-x86_64/bin/libconfig.so.8 (0x00007f7f716e1000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 
> (0x00007f7f714a3000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7f7129f000)
>         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 
> (0x00000032cde00000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7f7101a000)
>         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 
> (0x00000032cca00000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7f70c86000)
>         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7f718ec000)
>
> As you can see it lacks something related to GLIBC, but I'm not 
> sure how to fix that.

Yup, glibc is too old for those binaries.

What does "ldd --version" say?