I use fastcode stuff some times, I just never spend too much time figuring out how all the code works.
The way I do it is I create my software application first in Pascal.. Then if I find a huge bottleneck, I pull in a optimized function in place of the old one.. even if I dont' understand the optimized functions entirely. I'm sure lot's of people know and do this, but I want to make a point that sometimes 90 percent of your common GUI app doesn't need to be optimized.. only certain concentrated sections of the app need to be optimized, like search and replace routines, or especially with a compiler who is running through text over and over again (patronizing the compiler team here). With lowercase function I'm sure optimizations will help a lot if we are using it to do bulk translations of 1000's of MiXedCaSe text files from crackers/hackers whO wRiTe lIke tHiS. (ping Carl Eric ..j/k) More realistically, it could also help in a CGI app say if you were converting people's web posts to lower case (if hundreds of people posting at the same time for example). Lars Op Sun, 12 Jun 2005, schreef Daniël Mantione: > I can figure out how it works, but it is interresting and should be fast. I can't figure out... Sorry. Daniël _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel