* Goswin von Brederlow: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have written over the weekend a replacement for lib/fields.c and >> most of lib/parse.c, which uses flex (and flex start conditions) to >> generate a table-driven scanner-cum-parser. I haven't tested this >> fully for correctness yet, but I have done basic functionality tests >> and some performance tests. >> >> Upsides: >> * It runs 35% faster than the existing hand-coded *p++-style parser. > > 35% speedup in 1% of the total time spend in dpkg? Is this the right > place to optimize? I would have thought optimizing the *.list files > would be more important. :)
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