Re: DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #149,#150,#151

On 11/28/2016 02:18 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> I've also been looking into whether the lexer's token recogniser
> (keywords.c) could be done in a different way: the current approach, as
> used for the last 10 years, generates a custom code-driven trie, which uses
> very few CPU instructions; but these days branch prediction is more important,
> and that code style kills branch prediction. I suspect that a data-driven
> trie will perform better now.

I would be surprised if speeding this up would have much effect on 
programs, except for possibly string evals in an inner loop.  Am I wrong?

• DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #149,#150,#151 by Dave Mitchell
• Re: DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #149,#150,#151 by Karl Williamson
• Re: DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #149,#150,#151 by Dave Mitchell
• Re: DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #149,#150,#151 by Sawyer X