Table of Contents 1Minimizing critical sections 2RabbitFx: chunking 3Different chunking 4Experiments 5Outlook This is a quick note on some thoughts & experiments on fasta parsing, alongside github:RagnarGrootKoerkamp/fasta-parsing-playground. It’s a common complaint these days that Fasta parsing is slow. A common parser is Needletail (github), which builds on seq_io (github). Another recent one is paraseq (github). Paraseq helps the user by providing an interface for parallel processing of ...