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Subject: Re: [boost] [spirit] semantic action for mismatches?
From: caustik (caustik_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-10 11:15:51


On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Joel de Guzman wrote:
> > On 1/10/2011 10:03 AM, caustik wrote:
> >
> > > I'm also curious what the difference performance
> > > characteristics are (Spirit / Xpressive).
> >
> > I'm not quite keen on apples-oranges comparisons. Both xpressive and
> > Spirit have their place. That said, I am not aware of any
> > formal benchmarks,
> > but there's an informal one posted by Overmind on the Boost
> > users list:
> >
> > http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2009/07/153899.php
> >
> > With that simple test, Spirit beats highly optimized xpressive
> > (1.5 secs vs. 9 secs). You might want to read the whole thread.
>
> What's disappointing is that after I did, finally, post real code, that
> thread fizzled.
>
>
It would be a nice addition to the documentation to have some thorough
benchmark tests. Any particular ideas on what good tests would be? Maybe
even just a note in the FAQs with a suggestion on how tests could be run,
and asking for users to contribute, would yield some help from others. I
would imagine that there have been a few users who ran their own internal
tests before choosing a solution, if they were made aware of the interest in
gathering those results, they may volunteer that data.


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