[Lazarus] Why is SAX so slow?

[Werner Pamler]

> Sorry to not answer your question, but, fpspreadsheet looks very
> intereresting and first time I really looked..  So it is a spreadsheet
> without using any MS COM or activex to utilize ms excel?  A native
> spreadsheet for lazarus?  Cool! Something I'll probably need some time.
> Any crashes or major issues, other than slowness being reported in this
> thread now?
Yes, pure Pascal. No major issues (at least if you don't want it to do 
anything it was not designed for - like the poster in the forum). See 
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPSpreadsheet, or 
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPSpreadsheet_tutorial:_Writing_a_mini_spreadsheet_application