Re: Simplifying command line parsing with Genparse

[Michael Geng]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:04:33PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Genparse looks promising.
> > I like the examples.  But there are almost 100 programs in the
> > coreutils.  If genparse can really handle all of those use cases
> > without causing any significant degradation in the tools, then
> > it will be hard to object.
> 
> There's also argp, which is part of glibc and also provided by gnulib.

I would expect Genparse to generate faster code than argp because it does 
part of the work at compile time while argp does everything at run time
since it's a library function.

> Andreas.
> 
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