Speeding up text file parser (BLAST tabular format)

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 14:35:26 UTC, Fredrik Boulund 
wrote:
> 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?

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