Re: [boost] My Beast Review

Subject: Re: [boost] My Beast Review
From: Seth (bugs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-09 22:22:06

On 09-07-17 20:45, Phil Endecott via Boost wrote:
> (I believe that some of the discussion has used this "optimised parser" as 
> a justification for not making the code more generic, i.e. to work with 
> any iterator pairs.  I believe that to be flawed, since (a) I don't think 
> this optimisation is useful, and (b) even if it were, the code could 
> use it for any contiguous iterators, and fall back to "unoptimised" code 
> in other cases.  I think that having the "unoptimised" code present would 
> be useful for documenting what the parser is trying to do, in any case.)
+1 for this sentiment.

Boost has an excellent library for fast and versatile parsing. Using it
instead would at once lend a level of testing infeasible with the
hand-written code here AND make sure it runs on all target
architectures, as well as on any type of iterators.

I think indeed premature optimization does not benefit the library -
certainly in this stage of adoption.