One place installed a Hadoop cluster. Some of us suspected that replacing a regex monstrosity with Lex/Yacc might have given the speed needed to process the fi

One place installed a Hadoop cluster. Some of us suspected that replacing a regex monstrosity with Lex/Yacc might have given the speed needed to process the files. EDIT: Lex/Yacc that is some faster parser generator, I'm not too knowledgeable on that.