small optimization story

[isaac gouy]

> It scores poorly on those benchmarks in Doug's 
> original Linux shootout, too.  In each case, you 
> have to read a file a line at a time, which is not
> something that Erlang excels at. 

Worse than that - in several of the file-oriented
tests you're allowed to use a 4k input buffer, and the
Erlang solutions don't.

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