[boost] Re: Interest in a fast lexical analyser compatible

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-27 22:19:39

christopher diggins wrote:
> I just wrote a quick and dirty comparison between YARD and Spirit and 
> YARD performs roughly 10x faster as a toy C++ tokenizer. I know Joel, I 
> said I wouldn't do any comparisons, but I couldn't resist, what with 
> Dave's claim to be outperforming Spirit by 50x!

Sure, no problem. But watch out, Spirit-2 will have a speed improvement
in the 10X-20X range over classic Spirit ;-) I already have some test
cases, and this does not touch on predictive parsing and lexing.

Cheers,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net