Speeding up text file parser (BLAST tabular format)

[Fredrik Boulund via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 15:04:12 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>
> I've had nothing but trouble when using different versions of 
> libc. It would be easier to do this instead: 
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source
>
> I'm running a build of LDC git HEAD right now on an old server 
> with 2.11, I'll upload the result somewhere once it's done if 
> it might be useful

Thanks for the offer, but don't go out of your way for my sake. 
Maybe I'll just build this in a clean environment instead of on 
my work computer to get rid of all the hassle. The Red Hat 
llvm-devel packages are broken, dependent on libffi-devel which 
is unavailable. Getting the build environment up to speed on my 
main machine would take me a lot more time than I have right now.

Tried building LDC from scratch but it fails because of missing 
LLVM components, despite having LLVM 3.4.2 installed (though 
lacking devel components).