Improve performance for proofread_canonicals()
#258
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Currently,
proofread_canonicals()
takes c. 4-5 minutes, with the vast majority of time spent reading the files from disk. This PR improves performance to c. 100-120 seconds by using multiple threads to check the files. We also switch to byte methods overre
for another slight improvement, avoiding Unicode encoding/decoding.A