OMG text processing performance 6.7 - 9.5

[J. Landman Gay]

On 2/3/20 2:19 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote:
> Parse1 is here always at least 30% faster than Parse2.

I'm seeing the same thing, only more so. I searched for "the" in a 424K 
text file:

parse1 = 11 ms
parse2 = 111 ms

The text was imported into a field using the property inspector, which I 
assume converted it to UTF16 automatically.

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