[ragel-users] Reduce ragel generator time

[Adrian Thurston]

I just busted this link ... I moved the google group messages into the 
mailman archive and deleted the group. You can now find the thread here:

http://www.complang.org/pipermail/ragel-users/2007-July/000263.html

-Adrian

Horacio Sanson wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> Using the link you gave me I was able to find the thread I was looking
> for. Here it is if someone is interested.
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/ragel-users/browse_thread/thread/e1179e9756f6eb32/f69f6cd013f9426d?lnk=gst&q=sip+#f69f6cd013f9426d
> 
> What I don't understand is why this thread is not stored in my mail
> archives... strange.
> 
> regards,
> Horacio
> 
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Adrian Thurston <thurston at complang.org> wrote:
>> There was this thread:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/ragel-users/browse_thread/thread/70232b2c5fd478d0/
>>
>> I think there have been others but my searching skills suck right now.
>>
>> A good way to track down state explosions is to rebuild the grammar from
>> the bottom up, incrementally, and look for large unruly jumps in the
>> size. Just comment out the original main and start doing:
>>
>> main := <smaller_component>;
>>
>> Move <smaller_component> "up" the grammar until you get to the original
>> main. See chapter 4 of the manual for ways to fix the problems you find.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  Adrian
>>
>>
>>
>> Horacio Sanson wrote:
>>> I have this Ragel machine to parse RTSP messages that takes almost 20
>>> minutes to generate the C code. I remember reading in the mailing list
>>> about someone complaining that Ragel was taking too long to generate
>>> his/her SIP parser. In that same thread a solution about a machine
>>> that eats the blank spaces or something like that helped reduce the
>>> generation time from hours to a few minutes was posted but for some
>>> reason I cannot find this email in my email archives.
>>>
>>> If someone could repost this email or give me a simple example on how
>>> this was done I would appreciate it.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Horacio
>>>
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