FAQ

FAQ

• Why better than LEX/BISON

  1. Native state-machine description.
  2. SHProto parser does not lookahead in most of cases.
  3. Appliable for binary data.
  4. Optimized for hyerarchy state-based data flows like network protocols and some data types.
  5. Optimized for protocol/data type stacks.
  6. Extra short and flexible protocol descriptions.
  7. FSM-based description allows to build fast parsers

• What is new in SHProto

  1. Finite State Machine description native language.
  2. Event-driven parsing runtime.
  3. Very fast parsers supported.
  4. Easy to fix/enhance.