diff --git a/examples/1brc/README.md b/examples/1brc/README.md
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+Example for 1 Billion Row contest.
+
+KlongPy isn't very suited to this problem because most of the problem is processing the data as it's read.  For KlongPy to shine here, the data needs to already be loaded into memory so NumPy can do its magic.
+
+So for this example, we should a few neat things you can do with KlongPy.
+
+1. Use Python multiprocessing to parallel read the data.  This is the normal solution that's fast.
+2. Instead of processing the data as its read, we buffer the data into chunks and pass it to a KlongPy function which does vector processing on it to compute stats.
+3. Results are aggregated in the primary process and reported.
+
+
diff --git a/examples/1brc/par.kg b/examples/1brc/par.kg
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+.py("par.py")
+
+r::load(.os.argv@0)
+.p(r)
diff --git a/examples/1brc/par.py b/examples/1brc/par.py
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+# based on https://github.com/ifnesi/1brc/blob/main/calculateAverage.py
+
+# time python3 calculateAverage.py
+import os
+import multiprocessing as mp
+import numpy as np
+from klongpy import KlongInterpreter
+
+def chunks(
+    file_name: str,
+    max_cpu: int = 8,
+) -> list:
+    """Split flie into chunks"""
+    cpu_count = min(max_cpu, mp.cpu_count())
+
+    file_size = os.path.getsize(file_name)
+    chunk_size = file_size // cpu_count
+
+    start_end = list()
+    with open(file_name, "r") as f:
+
+        def is_new_line(position):
+            if position == 0:
+                return True
+            else:
+                f.seek(position - 1)
+                return f.read(1) == "\n"
+
+        def next_line(position):
+            f.seek(position)
+            f.readline()
+            return f.tell()
+
+        chunk_start = 0
+        while chunk_start < file_size:
+            chunk_end = min(file_size, chunk_start + chunk_size)
+
+            while not is_new_line(chunk_end):
+                chunk_end -= 1
+
+            if chunk_start == chunk_end:
+                chunk_end = next_line(chunk_end)
+
+            start_end.append(
+                (
+                    file_name,
+                    chunk_start,
+                    chunk_end,
+                )
+            )
+
+            chunk_start = chunk_end
+
+    return cpu_count, start_end
+
+
+def _process_file_chunk(
+    file_name: str,
+    chunk_start: int,
+    chunk_end: int,
+) -> dict:
+    """Process each file chunk in a different process"""
+    print(chunk_start, chunk_end)
+    stations = []
+    temps = []
+    klong = KlongInterpreter()
+    klong('.l("worker.kg")')
+    fn = klong['stats']
+    m = {}
+    with open(file_name, "r") as f:
+        f.seek(chunk_start)
+        for line in f:
+            chunk_start += len(line)
+            if chunk_start > chunk_end:
+                break
+            location, measurement = line.split(";")
+        #  measurement = float(measurement)
+            stations.append(location)
+            temps.append(measurement)
+            if len(stations) > 2**19:
+                r = np.asarray([np.asarray(stations), np.asarray(temps,dtype=float)],dtype=object) 
+                fn(m,r)
+                stations = []
+                temps = []
+
+    r = np.asarray([np.asarray(stations), np.asarray(temps,dtype=float)],dtype=object) 
+    fn(m,r)
+    return m 
+
+
+def process(
+    cpu_count: int,
+    start_end: list,
+) -> dict:
+    """Process data file"""
+    with mp.Pool(cpu_count) as p:
+        # Run chunks in parallel
+        chunk_results = p.starmap(
+            _process_file_chunk,
+            start_end,
+        )
+
+    return chunk_results 
+
+def load(fname):
+    cpu_count, start_end = chunks(fname)
+    return process(cpu_count, start_end)
+
+
diff --git a/examples/1brc/worker.kg b/examples/1brc/worker.kg
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+.pyf("numpy";["min" "max" "mean"])
+
+collect::{min(x),max(x),(+/x),#x}
+merge::{:[:_x;y;((x@0)&(y@0)),((x@1)|(y@1)),((x@2)+(y@2)),((x@3)+(y@3))]}
+stats::{[m s t g];m::x;s::y@0;t::y@1;{[q];q::s@(x@0);m,q,,merge(m?q;collect(t@x))}'=s;m}
+
+