On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:28:49AM -0600, Greg London wrote: > When you run the script, the output looks something like this: > > benchmarking for 30 seconds... > Rate > parse_recdescent_many 19/s > parse_gnaw_many 64/s > parse_recdescent_few 270/s > parse_gnaw_few 523/s > parse_recdescent_1 819/s > parse_gnaw_1 1127/s > > There's more text on each line showing percentages, but the Rate is all I > really care about. > > If I'm reading it right, and I'm not sure I am, then the script says that > Parse::Gnaw runs about three times faster than Parse::RecDescent (64 calls > per second versus 19 calls per second). That is really surprising to me.
You are reading it right. Rate is executions per second. The documentation for Parse::RecDescent mentions, under Bugs and Irritations, "The generated parsers don't always run as fast as might be wished." Ronald _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
