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Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads

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On 07/28/2015 04:44 AM, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
> On 28.07.2015 01:22, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> writes:
>> <snip>
>>> I'm writing an XML parser, which will also be built to support
>>> threads.
>>
>> That's a good idea.  Pretty much all utility code should aim to be
>> thread safe or thread aware.  (I'm not being sarky -- I know that may
>> not be what you mean by "support" but it will be a valuable consequence
>> of any consideration of threads.)
>>
>>> Now, I've been looking at bit at threads, parser state, setjmp and
>>> longjmp.
>>>
>>> Threads will be an important optional feature to minimize the amount of
>>> time it takes to parse an XML file.
>>
>> This is not an obvious fact that you can just assert.  You may have some
>> evidence for it, but if not I think you should try it out first as I
>> suggest below
> 
> Well I've gathered that threads aren't necessarily the one right way to
> reduce the time it takes to complete a task.

That's a start in the right direction. But you should also understand
that threads can be a very efficient and effective way of radically
increasing the amount of time it takes to complete a task. Creating a
new thread which either has too little work of it's own to do, or which
must spend too large a fraction of it's time coordinating its work with
other threads, can really ruin the performance of a program.
-- 
James Kuyper

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setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-27 20:50 +0200
  Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-28 00:22 +0100
    Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads] Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-27 21:00 -0400
      Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state,   threads] Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-28 13:57 +1200
        Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state,   threads] Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-27 22:13 -0400
          Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state,     threads] Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-28 17:12 +1200
            Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-28 09:46 -0400
          Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads] "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 10:07 +0200
            Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads] raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-07-28 09:28 +0000
              Patents, was [Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads]] "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 11:41 +0200
                Re: Patents, was [Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads]] Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-07-28 20:53 -0500
                Re: Patents, was [Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads]] "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 05:15 +0200
                Re: Patents, was [Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads]] Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-07-28 22:34 -0600
      Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads] Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-28 03:06 +0100
    Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 10:44 +0200
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-28 22:14 +1200
        Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 15:17 +0200
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-28 08:35 -0400
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-28 10:29 -0400
        Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 16:39 +0200
  Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-07-28 06:47 -0700
    Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 16:56 +0200
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2015-07-28 18:04 +0200
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-07-28 10:53 -0700
        Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 04:59 +0200
  Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-28 16:29 +0100

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