minor edit.  start list with comma is a bad idea

trying to track down slowing down performance, found this
lots of console.log statements, also moved sort detectors to stashout
cleaned up some things for speed, memory

mostly just stop using temp variables and stop copying big arrays
trying to fix memory leak in calvad manual map reduce script

minor edits to the collation script to reduce chance that I leak a
reference.
Merge branch 'bug/slowperformance'