On 03/30/2011 09:22 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
> Plus, free C++ MediaWiki parser ;-)
>
> Seriously, there should be a way to turn the entire package into a
> (huge) library; maybe transpile it and then replace the C++ code for
> index.php with a manually written library interface?
HipHop has a library generation feature. It even has an option to
provide public interfaces with human-readable names.
> Offline readers, scientific analysis tools, etc. could profit
> massively from an always-current, fast C++ library...
Speaking of "fast", I did a quick benchmark of the [[Barack Obama]]
article with templates pre-expanded. It took 22 seconds in HipHop and
112 seconds in Zend, which is not bad, for a first attempt. I reckon
it would do better if a few of the regular expressions were replaced
with tight loops.
Also, browsing the generated source turns up silly things like:
if (equal(switch2, (NAMSTR(s_ss34c5c84c, "currentmonth"))))
goto case_2_0;
if (equal(switch2, (NAMSTR(s_ss55b88086, "currentmonth1"))))
goto case_2_1;
if (equal(switch2, (NAMSTR(s_ss0ccbf467, "currentmonthname"))))
goto case_2_2;
if (equal(switch2, (NAMSTR(s_ss513d5737, "currentmonthnamegen"))))
goto case_2_3;
if (equal(switch2, (NAMSTR(s_ss004d8db5, "currentmonthabbrev"))))
goto case_2_4;
if (equal(switch2, (NAMSTR(s_ssf9584d41, "currentday"))))
goto case_2_5;
71 string comparisons in total, in quite a hot function. A hashtable
would probably be better.
-- Tim Starling
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