[fpc-pascal] [CPU war] Speed question for strings

[L505]

Which is faster, reading a file Character by Character, by Memory Block, or by
StringList.text?

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Welcome to the CPU war for StrLoadFile.. Please wait...

test 1 execution time: 9356007 <-- char by char
test 2 execution time: 259683  <-- blockread 1
test 3 execution time: 261501  <-- blockread 2
test 4 execution time: 2640901 <-- stringlist

Done.
Press <enter> to exit
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Celeron 400, Windows 2000

Fastest method seems to be, as predicted, BlockRead. However I thought Test3 would
have been faster.

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http://z505.com/download/pascal/StrWrap1/StrLoadFile_CpuWar.zip


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