Increasing Pipeline Speed

The PowerShell pipeline tends to be slow when it is processing a lot of elements. This can take a lot of time:

$result = 1..15000 | 
    ForEach-Object {
        "Line $_"
    } 

A much faster approach replaces ForeEach-Object with an anonymous script block and is up to 200x faster:

$result = 1..15000 | 
    & { process {
        "Line $_"
    }}

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