Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Spirit/Fusion

[K. G. <kim...@gm...>]

Hi Dean,

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:50, Dean Michael Berris
<mik...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking at the URI processing again, and I don't really see the
>> benefit of the Fusion map. Is Fusion required by the Spirit parser? Or
>> just the easiest way to export the parser results?
>>
>
> Actually, there's something here that's not terribly obvious.
>
> One thing that isn't there yet (that ought to be) is the normalization
> of values in the fusion map, using fusion algorithms, that get
> unrolled at compile time by any compiler. ;)
>
> So instead of doing a run-time loop for compile-time unrollable loops
> (for example, lower-casing any protocols, making sure domain names are
> lower-cased, URL-encoding parameters, etc.) we get the efficiency with
> a nice and expressive yet succinct syntax.

I figured there was something like that, thanks!

- Kim