Hi Daniel,

Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:06:15PM -0700, Alexander V. Voinov wrote:
> 
> > I've run the following program and found it to be extremely slow. Why?
> 
> To be optimized, streams and parsers must be preprocessed by Camlp4.
> If they are not, their code is longer, not tail recursive and can be
> very very slow indeed.
> 
> Compile you file with the option -pp camlp4o.

Yes, the difference is substantial, but it gets longer and longer anyway
with more elements parsed (for a slightly more complex program, which
parses the stream as it is generated) and crashes at some point.

I've attached the program (change parse_stream to parse_stream' and vice
versa).

Alexander