[erlang-questions] speed of neotoma parser

[Dmitry Kolesnikov]

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Best Regards, 
Dmitry 

> On 11 Nov 2015, at 22:48, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> Our Flussonic is using neotoma to parse our own config.
> 
> Neotoma creates parser, this parser reads text config.
> 
> It was great, users were really happy when we changed from erlang syntax to our own syntax, but now time to pay came.
> 
> One user came with 280 KB config file (written by hands, yes). Neotoma parser parses it during 45 seconds.
> 
> We've met with this problem earlier in our pulsedb library, when we changed very small (one screen) parser from neotoma to yecc and got 50-100 times speedup.
> 
> Now it is not easy to do it, because our config parser takes about 1000 lines of peg file.
> 
> I don't undertand what is the problem with speed of neotoma parser:
> 1) is it a nature of state machines that it generate?
> 2) is it a forgotten switch [{disable_slow,true}] in options?
> or is it something else?
> 
> Maybe there is a simple thing that we can do with neotoma for it to generate faster parser?
> 
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