Parsing binaries (was Re: Concatenating atoms)

[David Hopwood]

Thomas Lindgren wrote:
> --- Peter-Henry Mander
> <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>If integers are desirable, why not use indexes into
>>the binary which contains the original XML data?
> 
> Excellent idea. This sounds a bit like what's done in
> "Look ma, no hashing, and no arrays neither", Cai and
> Paige, in Proc. POPL 1991.

A later paper describing the same technique is on-line at
<http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cai95using.html>.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@REDACTED>