David Eagen: > I admit to being very new to D so perhaps I'm really doing something wrong.
This program uses string hashing, regular expressions, and by line file iteration. Those are among the most common operations done by script-like programs. Some suggestions for your D code: - Use the new regex engine - Use File.byLine instead of BufferedFile - don't use the built-in sort, use std.algorithm.sort - try to minimize the number of memory allocations - try to disable the GC if and when you think it's a good thing to do; - avoid casts where possible. - writef("%s,%d\n" ==> writefln("%s,%d" For Phobos devs: is the new regex engine able to support verbose regexes (it means that allow newlines, empty space and even comments)? In practice I only use them in Python. Bye, bearophile