Applying functions for speed optimization

[Aethelstan]

If there is no particular reason for passing arrays to functions, I would avoid it completely and make them global, like that:

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dim Shared as integer array(1000)

function m_fastbigrams( l as integer, s as integer) as integer	'<== no array passed as parameter

This array is filled with data in main program, procedure only needs to get it's data upper bounds (variable l in your example).
I think that you could also pass an array pointer instead of whole array if it would be really necessary, but I'm not familiar with that method; maybe someone else could explain it here.