Re: Nessus scripts and Moore's Law

Renaud Deraison <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:50:27 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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