Can it also handle the occasional update? I have "2 methods" now: one that takes a long time but works, and one that's much faster but gives different results once in a while. And because testing takes so long, I haven't found the problem yet.
Depends on how much time is "long time".
Leaving it single threaded (as most shell commands already are) will probably be alright as long as it doesn't take more than a few hours.
But if it has obscene memory requirements then it'll be too much for my box. I only got 9GB ram free and I hate rebooting the notatether.com webserver
