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