[ragel-users] Improving perf of the Java code

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

Oh, FWIW, the json parser for C Ruby is being generated with the -G2 FSM.

- Charlie

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<headius at headius.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I work on JRuby, the Ruby implementation for the JVM. As you may know,
> Ruby users have latched on to Ragel for a number of parser tasks, such
> as json, http, various markup languages, and so on.
>
> I have spent the last day trying to optimize a Ragel-generated json
> parser used as an extension to JRuby, and despite my best efforts I
> can't get it more than about 2x slower than the version for C Ruby.
> This is especially poor considering the Ruby code that surrounds it
> should run significantly faster on JRuby, and it still doesn't make up
> the gap.
>
> I'm wondering what, if anything, can be done to improve the
> performance of the generated Java code. I notice that Java is only
> supported in the simplest output form, presumably because of the lack
> of "goto". I'm interested in exploring options to bring the Java code
> up to par with the generated code for other languages, perhaps by
> implementing it using raw JVM bytecode (using some assembly-like
> format like BiteScript or Jasmin) or by post-processing the compiled
> result to insert true gotos.
>
> Any pointers on this? Any prior work or tips?
>
> - Charlie

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