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From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: Bruno De Fraine <Bruno.De.Fraine@vub.ac.be>
Cc: Caml-list ml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: ocamllex speed [was Re: [Caml-list] mboxlib reloaded ;-)]
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:54:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F815F2.1010903@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EFC8B570-0C5E-44D6-88CF-4CC04FA2CAFA@vub.ac.be>

Bruno De Fraine wrote:
> Neither version does anything useful, except print the current directory 
> when it encounters the string "current_directory". I tested this on a 
> 57M text file (that has only a few "current_directory" occurrences). The 
> ocamllex-version takes about 3.5s, while the Str-version takes only 
> 0.35s. What causes this difference? Perhaps there is a high overhead in 
> calling the translate function for every input character in such big 
> input files, but I don't know how this can be avoided.

Did you try to compile the same programs with the native compiler?

-- Alain


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-27 13:54 mboxlib reloaded ;-) Oliver Bandel
2007-04-27 16:29 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2007-04-27 23:12   ` Oliver Bandel
2007-04-28  0:54     ` skaller
2007-04-28 10:47       ` Oliver Bandel
2007-04-28 10:54         ` Gabriel Kerneis
2007-04-28 11:44           ` Oliver Bandel
2007-04-28 13:49             ` skaller
2007-04-28 14:18               ` Oliver Bandel
2007-04-29 10:45                 ` Richard Jones
2007-04-29 15:41                   ` Oliver Bandel
2007-04-29 18:51                     ` Robert Roessler
2007-05-01 11:00                       ` camomile-problem (Re: [Caml-list] mboxlib reloaded ;-)) Oliver Bandel
2007-05-01 10:56                   ` [Caml-list] mboxlib reloaded ;-) Oliver Bandel
2007-04-28  7:56     ` Richard Jones
2007-04-28 10:58       ` Oliver Bandel
     [not found]         ` <20070429103911.GA30510@furbychan.cocan.org>
2007-04-29 15:43           ` Oliver Bandel
2007-09-24 18:22     ` ocamllex speed [was Re: [Caml-list] mboxlib reloaded ;-)] Bruno De Fraine
2007-09-24 19:54       ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2007-09-25  8:53         ` Bruno De Fraine
2007-09-24 22:06       ` skaller
2007-09-27  5:26       ` Chris King

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