On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:13 PM, George George <george.githinji / gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks robert here are the results ran 100000 times for each approach > > user system total real > Brian: 36.500000 2.080000 38.580000 ( 38.738666) > Jesus: 217.180000 30.710000 247.890000 (248.848401) It shows that a specialized solution could be more streamlined :-). Anyway, my solution was never optimized for performance. Could be an interesting project... Jesus.