On 3/14/02 9:27 AM, "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 03:23, Christian Trutz wrote:
>> 
>> Hello velocitians,
>> 
>> I experimentize a little with ParserVisitors on AST and I think the following
>> patch is usefull:
>> 
>> it allows processing the AST nodes with a visitor, until now:
>> 
>> template.merge( context, writer );
>> 
>> now:
>> 
>> template.merge( context, writer );
>> and
>> template.merge( context, visitor );
>> 
>> are avaible. I think this is a trivial change, but it is usefull ...
> 
> I actually don't like the idea of changing something so fundamental but
> I would be curious if you tried any profiling to see if there was any
> performance difference between using a visitor and the self-walking
> tree.

I can't imagine that it will be faster.

To me this appears to be of academic interest - I would only be in favor of
this if there was some kind of usecase that supported it.

Given the model is fairly well used and tested at this point, I can't
imagine what that use case would be.

-- 
Geir Magnusson Jr.                                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System and Software Consulting
My inner cowboy needs to yodel.


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