[fpc-pascal] fast text processing

[Vincent Snijders]

Bee schreef:
>> But people who have seen
>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=regexdna&lang=all 
>>
>> may have doubted that.
> 
> Vincent, are we connected or what?! I was about to post the very exact 
> URL! :-D
> 
>> I wonder where fpc would end up in that list,
>> A: if it uses its own regexpr parser (atm not good enough)
>> B: if it uses Jeff's header translations for pcre
> 
> I prefer it would use fpc own regexpr unit instead of using other 
> language libraries. IMO, it'd show the power of pascal (fpc) by itself. ;)
> 

Sure, but as Jonas pointed out it is better to use a good library than the write a 
bad library yourself. Feel free to improve the regexpr unit, if you want it to be used.

Vincent