Since there is always more than one way to do it. Here would be my guess to traverse the file faster:
my $jmp_distance = 100;
my $treshhold = $FOO
my $line = <FILE>;
(my $tstamp, my $rest) = split(/\s+/,$line,2);
#skipping through file by jumping over $jmp_distance lines
do {
$. += $jmp_distance;
$line = <FILE>;
($tstamp, $rest) = split(/\s+/,$line,2);
} while ($tstamp<=$treshhold)
#since we overshot with the last jump
$. -= $jmp_distance;
while (<FILE>) {
($tstamp, $rest) = split(/\s+/,$_,2);
print if $tstamp > $treshhold;
}
Of course you can modify this further. For example putting the whole do whileloop in a sub and recursively call it with shorter jmp_distances. that way you could start with a distance of 10000 and then go to shorter distances like 1000, 100, 10 and 1 (1 = condition to break the recursion) if you call the sub with jmp_distance/10.
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