Re: time in invoking the Lex Yacc parser

[John W. Millaway]

> parser itself and continue.The issue here is whether invoking the parser a
> 100 times is more costlier(timewise) than invoking it once and completing
> the flow a hundred times inside the parser.And if there is big difference in
> time what are the orders of magnitude?

The answer is architecture-dependent. If you're worried about saving cycles at
that level, you should be using a profiler.

$ gcc -pg  -O3 parser.c -o parser
$ ./parser
$ gprof


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger
http://phonecard.yahoo.com/