spend a lot of time with alex generated module

hat-trans spends a lot of time (really a lot of time) in
generate module from
a module generated by alex. The original module has 330
lines of code and
module generated by hat-trans has 40700 !!.

Somebody knows what's happening?

thanks
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kgu <kguentogmail.com> wrote:

> hat-trans spends a lot of time (really a lot of time)
in generate
> module from a module generated by alex. The original
module has 330
> lines of code and module generated by hat-trans has
40700 !!.

It is well-known that giving a machine-generated input to
any
compiler-like tool is the best way to show up its
weaknesses!  I suppose
the output from Alex is very different from the kind of code
that a
human would write.  Since Alex creates essentially a
table-driven
lexical analyser, it is possible that a large static
description of the
tables is where hat-trans is spending lots of time.  Also,
if the
Alex-generated code is deeply nested, hat-trans may spend
too much time
trying to pretty-print its output within 80 columns, when
really the
formatting will not fit nicely into such a small width.

Just some ideas.  If you want to send a copy of the original
Alex
specification, we may be able to investigate further.

Regards,
    Malcolm
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