[fpc-pascal] fast text processing

[Vincent Snijders]

Bee schreef:
>> 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. ;)
> 

A. That is not a problem. A couple of other, non-c participants use pcre.
B. The same is done with pidigits.
C. It shows that fpc has good interoperability.