lda@clyde.UUCP (04/10/87)
I was at the USENIX conference in Washington last January. Van Jacobson (of Lawrence Berkeley Labs) presented a fantastic paper on Tuning UNIX Lex in which he demonstrated incredible performance improvments in the lex generated recognizer (lex returned tokens a fast as getc returned characters). Has anybody been able to get the code from him? If so, PLEASE send it to me. I (from AT&T Bell Labs) have enough UNIX source licences to fill a small trunk, so there are no legality issues to worry over. Larry -- Larry D. Auton (201)386-4272 ihnp4!clyde!lda
casey@vangogh.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (04/12/87)
In article <8251@clyde.ATT.COM> lda@clyde.ATT.COM (Larry Auton) writes: > I was at the USENIX conference in Washington last January. Van Jacobson > (of Lawrence Berkeley Labs) presented a fantastic paper on Tuning UNIX Lex > in which he demonstrated incredible performance improvements in the lex > generated recognizer (lex returned tokens a fast as getc returned > characters). Has anybody been able to get the code from him? The summary says it all. I don't know when he'll manage to get it out; He's currently playing with networking. He has promised to give it to me for inclusion in the BSD distribution as soon as he's happy with it. Of course, by "happy" he means "as soon as it's not interesting to play with anymore and all that's left is the hard work of cleaning it up" to quote Van ...