Re: slowness in grammar

2009-06-04 Thread Leon Timmermans
If you want to write a fast parser for XML, preventing backtracking is going to be quite essential. I suspect the problem is your grammar, not the grammar engine itself. You could post it to perl6-users and ask for advice on it. Leon On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Is

slowness in grammar

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Is this a good place to come with code that runs into speed problems? I am writing a program in perl6 to read the xml file from a Sony book reader, list the books, and move books into collections (the Sony software to do this will only work on windoz and not on wine). I have a grammar that wo