Enormous Input and Output Test

[alex23]

On Oct 4, 1:58 pm, n00m <n... at narod.ru> wrote:
> > Do you know how big the input data set actually is?
>
> Of course, I don't know exact size of input.
> It's several MBs, I guess. And mind the fact:
> their testing machines are PIII (750MHz).

Well, then, that's moved the problem from "challenging" to
"ludicrous". Being asked to conform to one constraint with no
knowledge of the others seems kind of ridiculous.

On my machine, the above code handles ~50MB in ~10sec.