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>Now, what I did was to create pipline with three threads - one to read the
>line, one to make the change, and one to write the lines. Each step of the
   If the scanning&modification is taking a lot of CPU time and you have
a multicore CPU, it might also be worthwhile to have more than one "make
the change" tasks.  Experiment shows that helps on a simple word counter.