Re: [HACKERS] gperf anyone?

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> A while ago I played around with gperf (GNU perfect hash function
> generator), abusing the keyword lookup in parser/keyword.c as playground.
> Now before I delete this I was wondering if this would perhaps be of use
> to the general public. I don't know how huge the speed advantage of this
> is, I'm sure the parser/scanner speed is the least of our problems. But I
> thunk especially ecpg could benefit from this. Btw., gperf is used by GCC,
> so it's not a toy.

Okay, that post told me absolutely nothing :( What would we use it
for? What is its purpose?

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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