Re: Nessus scripts and Moore's Law
Renaud Deraison <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:50:27 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:50:11PM +0100, Michel Arboi wrote: > I've tried to save the syntax tree in a simple binary format but > loading this is not quicker than parsing the file. Bison is really > good! Just a side note on this : what takes time is the loading of the .nasl file from disk to memory. The way the interpretor is done today, a compiled .nasl file is actually bigger than a un-compiled one, so the CPU time gained by using a binary file is lost in system calls to read the file from disk. -- Renaud _______________________________________________ Nessus-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus-devel