Hello Atila, Thursday, February 16, 2006, 8:03:29 PM, you wrote: AR> Is there any way to tell the compiller to be 'more lazy' so if appears AR> content!!100000 it skips a lot of data? AR> Im not concearned with concurrency here. FastPackedStrings library with its mmap support will help you -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz at HotPOP.com