Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> 
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Nifty basic :-)
 

> 
> A language like Inprise Borland Object Pascal and the component library VCL
> uses assembler in time-critical parts (sorting, string functions) or in
> parts, where a call couldn't easily be faked using high level Pascal
> (because something like non-standard stack handling is required). 
I know this about the Delphi environment, and that they used it partly
in OOP pascal.

> I've
> however seen one example, where optimized Pascal code was *faster* than the
> original hand-optimized assembler routine. This was also a string function.
> It was the improved algorithm which did the trick.

Show me that pascal code, please. 

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