[fpc-pascal] fast text processing

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> > Word count: 126944
> > Unique word count: 11793
> >
> > real    0m0.281s
> > user    0m0.244s
> > sys     0m0.016s
>

Can someone do a test for 5 minutes of parsing and see if things slow down or
speed up for one of the programs?

That takes away process load time too..

example: the time it takes to fork the process.

Not sure if perl scripts are initially faster since you don't have to fork a
process, assuming perl is already in memory waiting for the script.