Implements support for start and end offsets.

[KelSolaar]

Hi,

This relates to #3 in my Need for Speed, it would be great to be able to specify start and end offsets to read the file, this way one could cheaply multiprocess the entire scan by allocating different chunks of a large file to different stringsext instances.

Cheers,

Thomas

[getreu]

Hello Thomas,

could cheaply multiprocess the entire scan

Stringsext does spawn several os-threads already and runs the scan in parallel. Most probably you will not be faster launching more than one instance Stringsext on the same machine. Nevertheless, to try you might want to check out the new Stringsext version 2 and run:

head -c 100000  input.raw | stringsext -p out1.txt &
tail -c + 100000 input.raw  | stringsext -s 100000 -p out2.txt

My first tests also show, that version 2 is at least 30% faster. This might help also.