Re: [boost] Re: Any interest for a parser class?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-18 07:46:12

joel de guzman wrote:

> Ok here's a quick shot at it:
> Borland 5.5.1
> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>//// So the numbers don't lie. In terms of code size,
> Spirit outperforms Gennadiy's code hand written code.
> 146K vs 180K in this trivial example.

Numbers don't lie indeed, but the full truth is yet to be found. I mean that 
parsing only complex number won't give us full understanding of space 
requirements. Other grammars need to be considered, and effect on space of 
one new rule (very approximate, of cause), would be usefull. It will be great 
if at least partial infromation of this kind is available before you submit 
Spirit. (I'd like to note that I haven't used Spirit practically yet, but 
still find it an interesting and possibly usefull tool. We only should know 
the domain where it's appropriate).

- Volodya