Re: [ANN] LuaCSV

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Thomas Lauer<thomas.lauer@virgin.net> wrote:
> I have not yet looked into your code but one question springs to mind
> immediately: have you done some benchmarks (informal or otherwise), eg
> with a pure-Lua solution that works with LPEG or some other
> pattern-matching algorithms? I am confident that a low-level interface
> would be faster than pure Lua... the question is how much faster?

Obviously, but if LPEG comes within say 50% percent of the speed, then
really one doesn't need a specialized module.

I know some people have been using LPEG for this task; I'd like to
look that those solutions to give them a test.

steve d.