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by chromatic (983)

If you avoid glomming all of those lines together in a single text file, you can avoid having to scan that file sequentially before you can parallelize. This can be handy if you need to process logfiles in parallel.
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  by Mark Leighton Fisher (4252) on 2007.06.22 12:01 (#55719) Homepage Journal
  
  Too true. But sometimes we still have text files to deal with – I didn't mean to exclude sidestepping the ordered-bit problem by storing the data in random-access fashion.
  
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