[fpc-pascal] fast text processing

[Marco van de Voort]

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> > I had never used Perl before. Until someone showed me Perl is very fast 
> > for text processing (using its powerful regex), despite it's an 
> > interpreted language. It even beat Delphi and FPC though both are 
> > compiled language. A few lines Perl program almost two times faster than 
> > a few pages pascal program.
> 
> Alright everyone. The answers are enough. Now I can say confidently that 
> pascal (fpc v.2.2) is FASTER than Perl, including in text processing. ;)
> 
> Thank you very much to everyone who involves in this thread. :)

I don't think that everybody that saw:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&calc=Calculate&xfullcpu=1&xmem=0.5&xloc=0&binarytrees=1&chameneos=0&message=0&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&meteor=0&nbody=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&partialsums=1&pidigits=1&recursive=1&regexdna=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&hello=0&sumcol=1

ever doubted that.