Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#76 new defect

Allow zzcat to output immediately — at Initial Version

Reported by: Sam Hocevar Owned by: Sam Hocevar
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: core Version: SVN
Keywords: Cc:
Product: zzuf

Description

If a zzcat sequence doesn't use rewind() or fseek(), we know that any read byte can be immediately sent to the standard output. This would improve zzcat's speed and memory usage:

  • design a simple bytecode language
  • write another parser that translates the sequence to bytecode
  • check for syntax BEFORE running the bytecode!
  • if rewinding functions don't appear in the bytecode, output characters immediately

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