[fpc-pascal] fast text processing

[Vincent Snijders]

Bee schreef:
>> TStrings is meant for GUI purposes. It's design and implementation are
>> not optimized.
> 
> Then its our task to optimize it more (and more) so it could as fast as 
> Perl. What I meant here is using standard or default FPC's 
> classes/units. ;) I don't count any third parties class/units/library or 
> non standard attempt here since it'd require extra effort, especially 
> for newbies or newcomers (to FPC).
> 
> Of course, I know I can beat Perl using my own optimized TStrings 
> written in assembler by hand mixed by pascal syntax. But, that's not the 
> point. ;)
> 

The point is that you are probably using the wrong class (I have not seen your 
code). To do unique word counts, a hash table is more suitable that a string list.

Vincent