Re: jsonpath

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 2:01 AM Alexander Korotkov
<a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 4:09 AM John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > I was wondering about that. I measured the current size of
> > yy_transition to be 36492 on my machine. With the flag -Cfe, which
> > gives the smallest representation without backtracking, yy_nxt is 6336
> > (there is no yy_transition). I'd say that's a large enough difference
> > that we'd want the smaller representation if it makes little
> > difference in performance.
>
> Did I understand correctly that you've tried the same version of
> jsonpath_scan.l with different flex flags?

Correct.

> Did you also notice if
> changes 1d88a75c made to jsonpath_scan.l have singnificant influence?

Trying the same measurements above with backtracking put back in,
jsonpath_yylex was actually larger by a few hundred bytes, and there
was almost no difference in the transition/nxt tables.


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