Speeding up text file parser (BLAST tabular format)

[Fredrik Boulund via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 14:28:41 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> Yup, glibc is too old for those binaries.
>
> What does "ldd --version" say?

It says "ldd (GNU libc) 2.12". Hmm... The most recent version in 
RHEL's repo is "2.12-1.166.el6_7.1", which is what is installed. 
Can this be side-loaded without too much hassle and manual effort?