I have a [gist here](https://gist.github.com/llogiq/7e36d840e1144076c2f1) It runs roughly 5 times as fast as my previous attempt (on my machine). I'll obviously submit it to Rust first before putting a PR here. If you want to build it, you need to add ``` NUM_CPUS ?= num_cpus-0.2.6 bin/fasta_redux: src/fasta_redux.rs lib/$(NUM_CPUS).pkg ``` to the Makefile.