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From: | Bob Proulx |
Subject: | Re: Simplifying command line parsing with Genparse |
Date: | Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:46:42 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.9i |
Michael Geng wrote: > I could imagine that especially for the Coreutils speed might be more a > concern than for other tools because some of the Coreutils tools are > called very often. I would expect that the time loading the executable would swamp any possible option processing. This is really something that would need a benchmark in order to produce real data. Often the results are not intuitive and the opposite of what might be expected. > And I would also expect that with Genparse you also get smaller code > than with argp again because it does part of the work while it > generates the parser code while argp is a library function and so it > does everything at run time. Without committing one way or the other I think it could go either way. :-) Bob
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