Re: [boost] [xpressive] Performance Tuning?

Subject: Re: [boost] [xpressive] Performance Tuning?
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-07 17:43:49

Paul Baxter wrote:
> "Stewart, Robert" wrote:
>> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
>>>
>>> It would be good if you could submit your code as a case in
>>> optimizing expressive code.
>>
>> Where and how would you have me do so?  I can see developing a 
>> performance tuning example from it to put in the documentation.  I 
>> don't know how much of that Eric has in mind already or if he is 
>> interested in such an addition (of his own doing or mine).
> 
> This has been an incredibly useful thread. Thanks to you all.
> 
> As a potential user put off in the past by concerns over abstraction 
> penalties with such libraries (even compile time libraries often fail to 
> deliver in all but simple cases), I urge Eric to embrace such an example 
> to illustrate just how powerful and maintainable a solution based on 
> expressive can be.

I think this is a fine idea. All these tips and tricks are already 
described in a doc, but they are not described in depth from an end-user 
perspective. I think a performance tuning case study would make a 
valuable appendix.

Robert, can you send me the latest version of your regex grammar and 
your hand-coded parser? I'll see what I can do.

-- 
Eric Niebler
BoostPro Computing
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