[ragel-users] Re: Ruby and Java code generation

[Ola Bini]

Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> El 28/9/2007, a las 22:04, Adrian Thurston escribió:
>
>   
>> Before loop breaks and variables were used in Ruby code call/cc  
>> features
>> were used. This was found to be very slow (about 10 times slower than
>> the current). Do you think throw/catch would be any better than  
>> call/cc?
>>     
>
> Yes, if for no other reason than the fact that Ruby 1.9 won't have  
> call/cc...
>
> Cheers,
> Wincent
>   
Throw/catch will perform much better - the speed of call/cc is due to 
saving and restoring the stack each time you use it - this won't happen 
with throw/catch.

But you're wrong about 1.9. Matz and Koichi added continuations again a 
month or two back.

Cheers

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