Re:Show HN: Bo, the Swiss army knife of data examination and...
by kstenerud on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:30AM
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It's fully reentrant and thread safe atm. I haven't thought about multithreaded parsing & printing, though. Mostly it was intended as a quick tool to get data into the right format for testing or debugging or writing code.
In the context of large files, do you think you would like to extend it to a multi-threaded variant to fully exploit additional cores or will the overhead due to threading and memory bottlenecks not provide any advantage?