[fpc-pascal] AnsiStrings and Memory Management

[Peter Vreman]

>
>>(astonishing that  ShortStrings are slower than AnsiStrings in this
>> example
> in delphi).
>
> Not really. Delphi is silently upcasting your shortstrings to AnsiStrings
> in
> the background. You would probably have to recompile the VCL to get around
> this ;-)

I've commited a few small fixes to improve performance, please try again
with current 2.1.1 from svn