4. RegExes, especially complex ones, are usually orders of magnitude slower than straight Pascal, because they're usually interpreted at runtime by a parser.
They could possibly be preprocessed if assigned to a constant, although I've not tried doing this.
If you modify the RegExp-parsing source code AND implement it in the FPC compiler sources to do that, sure.
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