Re: Mason acceleration using C++

Are there any documents explaining Mason's architecture? 'cause I'd love to 
get to the bottom of this optimization controversy and once for all find if 
it's feasible or not... I'm an experienced C++ programmer but unfortunately 
I'm very new to Perl and Mason (still, I'm quickly learning)

Kronuz.

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>From: Dave Rolsky <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Mason-devel] Mason acceleration using C++
>Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:23:44 -0500 (CDT)
>
>On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Jeremy Kronuz wrote:
>
>>I'm new to the Mason world, but I just wanted to know what's holding Mason 
>>from reaching the Embperl performance shown in some benchmarks. For what 
>>I’ve read is the C portion of Embperl that makes it faster. Couldn’t it be 
>>possible to rewrite strategic parts of Mason in C or C++ to surpass 
>>Embperl performance? That’s just a thought I’ve been having since I’m more 
>>inclined to Mason, but I like Embperl speed, and I don’t think it’s just a 
>>philosophical matter; technically Embperl has a point there, I believe.
>
>We've discussed this a bit before.  The problem here would be trying to 
>find some portion of the code that would both give a big speed boost and 
>also be reasonably easy to convert & maintain.
>
>The obvious big chunk is the lexer/compiler code, but given that we have 
>things like static_source mode to minimize parsing, this would probably be 
>a waste of time.
>
>I'm not sure what else would be a good target.  Much of the code is broken 
>up into small methods, which aren't very amenable to translating to C.
>
>In my experience, the pieces that benefit most from being in C are complex 
>algorithms that can be wholesale rewritten into C (like I did for 
>DateTime), but Mason realy doesn't have much that fits in that category.
>
>
>-dave
>
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