> > this kludge is about 25% faster than your perl script > > on my machine....
> Nope. It's still more or less twice slower. :-D I guess it depends on the hardware: % time koleksi.pl # perl Word count: 126944 Unique word count: 11793 real 0m1.019s user 0m0.992s sys 0m0.028s % time koleksi # fpc Word count:126944 Unique word count:11793 real 0m0.817s user 0m0.784s sys 0m0.020s AMD-K6-700 / SuSE-10.3 / Linux-2.6.22 / perl-5.8.8 / fpc-2.2.0 - Jeff _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal