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Date: | 2007-09-24 (23:12) |
From: | Alain Frisch <alain@f...> |
Subject: | Re: ocamllex speed [was Re: [Caml-list] mboxlib reloaded ;-)] |
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