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From: Peter Olcott on 19 May 2010 16:44
On 5/19/2010 2:51 PM, Leigh Johnston wrote:
>
>
> "Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote in message
> news:W_ydnU32Ptzn3WnWnZ2dnUVZ_qgAAAAA(a)giganews.com...
>>
>> Again you forget the primary purpose of this whole line-of-reasoning.
>> The goal is to show that it is not possible to construct a faster
>> lexer than the one based on a state transition matrix.
>
> This contradicts what you said earlier, i.e.:
>
>>>>> The main purpose of this is to read in a file of UTF-8 to be converted
>>>>> to UTF-32. I don't have to mutate the input at all, the user must know
>>>>> to append the 0xFF byte.
>
> What is the difference between "primary purpose" and "main purpose"?
>
> I give up, your replies are too troll-like whether intentionally or not.
>
> /Leigh

The purpose of the software is to validate UTF-8 and translate it into
UTF-32 as fast as possible.

The purpose of this thread is to show that alternatives to state
transition matrix based solutions to this problem must be slower.
From: Pete Delgado on 19 May 2010 17:29

"Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote in message
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> On 5/19/2010 11:37 AM, Leigh Johnston wrote:
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>>
>> "Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote in message
>> news:re6dna39C89cj2nWnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d(a)giganews.com...
>
>> Stop spamming this newsgroup with your UTF-8 DFA irrelevance.
>>
>> /Leigh
>
> Several people specifically requested that I back up my claims, so I did.-

What you have posted is far from complete, compiled, tested and working
properly... Thus I still await the presentation of your *completed* code.

-Pete


From: Peter Olcott on 19 May 2010 22:39
On 5/19/2010 4:29 PM, Pete Delgado wrote:
> "Peter Olcott"<NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote in message
> news:5Yidnf9cw9-ehWnWnZ2dnUVZ_jwAAAAA(a)giganews.com...
>> On 5/19/2010 11:37 AM, Leigh Johnston wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "Peter Olcott"<NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote in message
>>> news:re6dna39C89cj2nWnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d(a)giganews.com...
>>
>>> Stop spamming this newsgroup with your UTF-8 DFA irrelevance.
>>>
>>> /Leigh
>>
>> Several people specifically requested that I back up my claims, so I did.-
>
> What you have posted is far from complete, compiled, tested and working
> properly... Thus I still await the presentation of your *completed* code.
>
> -Pete
>
>

Right, and it is coming. It would only take me a few hours to complete
it. I will spend about twenty minutes on it every day.
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