[fpc-pascal] fast text processing

[Vinzent Hoefler]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 14:19, Bee wrote:
> > Sure, but as Jonas pointed out it is better to use a good library
> > than the write a bad library yourself.
>
> And someone would claim that the speed comes from the library (c?),
> not
>
> >from pascal. :P It's a LANGUAGE shootout btw, not LIBRARY shootout.
>
> Maybe you had forgotten that. ;)

Well, considering that perl's or Python's speed greatly rely on the 
underlying C-implementation of (at least) particular functionality, all 
those comparisons basically boil down to C vs. C, anyway. Or don't 
they?

;)


Vinzent.