diff --git a/asyncreader.go b/asyncreader.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4fcff8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asyncreader.go
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"sync"
+
+	"golang.org/x/exp/mmap"
+)
+
+const lf = byte('\n')
+const null = byte(0)
+
+type AsyncLineReader struct {
+	offset    int64
+	eof       bool
+	file      *mmap.ReaderAt
+	mu        *sync.Mutex
+	remainder []byte
+}
+
+func NewAsyncLineReader(name string) (*AsyncLineReader, error) {
+	var a = &AsyncLineReader{
+		offset: 0,
+		eof:    false,
+		mu:     &sync.Mutex{},
+	}
+
+	var err error
+	a.file, err = mmap.Open(name)
+
+	return a, err
+}
+
+func (a *AsyncLineReader) Read(b []byte) (int, error) {
+	if a.eof {
+		return 0, io.EOF
+	}
+
+	a.mu.Lock()
+	defer a.mu.Unlock()
+
+	var n, err = a.file.ReadAt(b, a.offset)
+	if err == io.EOF {
+		a.eof = true
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	if n == 0 {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	// find the last line feed in the batch
+	for {
+		n--
+
+		if b[n] == lf {
+			// selected character is a line feed, we're done
+			break
+		} else if n == 0 {
+			break // result is at start of file
+		}
+
+		b[n] = null // Discard this byte so it doesn't get read multiple times
+	}
+
+	a.offset += int64(n)
+
+	return n, err
+}
+
+func (a *AsyncLineReader) Close() error {
+	return a.file.Close()
+}
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index e5462ba..ee3000b 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-go build -o rapidgrep -ldflags="-s -w" main.go
+go build -o rapidgrep -ldflags="-s -w" asyncreader.go main.go
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 1ee0e5f..c654b18 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -1,28 +1,24 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"bufio"
 	"bytes"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
-	"runtime/pprof"
 	"sync"
 )
 
-const lf = byte('\n')
-
 func main() {
-	f, _ := os.Create("cprof")
-	pprof.StartCPUProfile(f)
-	defer pprof.StopCPUProfile()
+	// prof, _ := os.Create("cprof")
+	// pprof.StartCPUProfile(prof)
+	// defer pprof.StopCPUProfile()
 
 	if len(os.Args) != 2 {
 		print("One argument required\n")
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
 
-	f, err := os.Open("locate.txt")
+	f, err := NewAsyncLineReader("locate.txt")
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
@@ -34,68 +30,42 @@ func main() {
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
 
 	// Make a channel and a thread for each CPU core
-	var cores = runtime.NumCPU()
-	var workchannel = make(chan []byte)
-	for i := 0; i < cores; i++ {
-		go scannerThread(workchannel, []byte(needle), &wg)
+	var threads = runtime.NumCPU()
+	for i := 0; i < threads; i++ {
+		go scannerThread(f, []byte(needle), &wg)
 		wg.Add(1)
 	}
 
-	var br = bufio.NewReaderSize(f, 1<<25) // reader with 32 MiB buffer
-	var buf = make([]byte, 1<<20)          // 1 MiB buffer for searching
-	var remainder []byte
-	var nread int
-
-	for {
-		nread, err = br.Read(buf)
-		if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
-			panic(err)
-		}
-		if err != io.EOF {
-			// Get the remainder of the last line
-			remainder, err = br.ReadBytes(byte('\n'))
-			if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
-				panic(err)
-			}
-		}
-
-		workchannel <- append(buf[:nread], remainder...)
-
-		if err == io.EOF {
-			break
-		}
-	}
-
-	close(workchannel)
 	wg.Wait()
 }
 
-func scannerThread(workchannel chan []byte, needle []byte, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
-	var batch []byte
-	var ok bool
+func scannerThread(r *AsyncLineReader, needle []byte, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
 	var i, linelen, start, end int
+	var buf = make([]byte, 1<<24) // 1 MiB buffer for searching
+	var err error
 
 	defer wg.Done() // Sync up the goroutines when done
 
 	for {
-		batch, ok = <-workchannel
-		if !ok {
-			return // channel closed. we're done
+		linelen, err = r.Read(buf)
+		if err != nil {
+			if err == io.EOF {
+				return
+			}
+			panic(err)
 		}
 
-		linelen = len(batch)
-
 		// This loop is for every result found, when there are no more results
 		// it stops. When it runs for the first time the first index function is
 		// executed, which indexes the entire batch. In the following iterations
 		// the second index function is used, which begins searching where the
 		// last result ended so it doesn't get found twice.
-		for i = bytes.Index(batch, needle); i != -1; i = bytes.Index(batch[end:], needle) {
+		for i = bytes.Index(buf, needle); i != -1; i = bytes.Index(buf[end:], needle) {
 			start, end = i+end, i+end
 			// needle was found, but where?
 
 			for { // find the start (line feed of the line before it, or index 0)
-				if batch[start] == lf {
+				if buf[start] == lf {
 					start++ // the line feed is from the previous line, so skip it
 					break
 				} else if start == 0 {
@@ -105,7 +75,7 @@ func scannerThread(workchannel chan []byte, needle []byte, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
 			}
 
 			for { // find the end (line feed at the end of the line)
-				if batch[end] == lf {
+				if buf[end] == lf {
 					end++ // include the line feed in the line
 					// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26857582/in-a-go-slice-why-does-slohi-end-at-element-hi-1
 					break
@@ -118,11 +88,12 @@ func scannerThread(workchannel chan []byte, needle []byte, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
 			// Print the result. Note that stdout is not necessarily
 			// concurrency-safe, so in a real application this would have to be
 			// passed through a channel.
-			os.Stdout.Write(batch[start:end])
+			os.Stdout.Write(buf[start:end])
 
 			// This is to keep track of where the end of the byte array is so we
 			// can avoid index out of bounds panics
 			linelen = linelen - end
 		}
+		end = 0
 	}
 }