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Re: Adventures in Async

Padanian29-Jun-20 21:24

Padanian

29-Jun-20 21:24

There you go. Something went terribly wrong in the history of computing.

Re: Adventures in Async

KateAshman30-Jun-20 22:00

KateAshman

30-Jun-20 22:00

XML parsing is a forgotten art, but I have a story that might inspire your creativity. 😉

I once had to build an XML parser that could process a 1.8 gig file on demand, with the intent of generating C++ header files. The hard part was terrible formatting and not being able to pre-process the darn thing, which forced me to use a single pass multi-line regex implementation. After a couple of weeks struggling with it, my biggest time save was finally gained by switching to a stream reader.

When I read your story, my first idea was to use a non-locking stream reader and simply running the thing 4 times on 4 cores.

Personally, I don't see the need for parallelism in this instance and I think it's a red herring to be honest.

Anyways, good luck. 👍

Re: Adventures in Async

Jörgen Andersson1-Jul-20 5:15

Jörgen Andersson

1-Jul-20 5:15

I'm probably skipping it.
The sequential program works and can run in the background without any problems.

For me it was mostly an educational experience.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

Re: Adventures in Async

Raphael Muindi Jr.1-Jul-20 19:12

Raphael Muindi Jr.

1-Jul-20 19:12

Are you, by any chance, using Linq?

Re: Adventures in Async

Jörgen Andersson1-Jul-20 20:11

Jörgen Andersson

1-Jul-20 20:11

Partly

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello