Re^3: define analyser - performance problem

Yeah, the code is a nightmare. It was Win32 COM application, and at some point people decided to port it to linux. Instead of rewriting code, they have written some classes and macros to imitate COM behaviour (hiding unix functions inside). It is now really a mess and company I am working in, takes it over subsystem after subsystem and tries to clean it up...

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Re^4: define analyser - performance problem by Marshall (Canon) on Jun 30, 2009 at 07:41 UTC
I wish you well! Sorry to sound flippant, but this does sound like a mess! The good news is that Perl can probably help! But the job is gonna be "nasty". Somewhere along my foreign language training, I heard that VOA (Voice of America) transmits with a total vocabulary of about 8,000 words. That is actually an astonishingly small number for English (you probably have a passive vocabulary of way more than 20K words). I would say that 13,000 is an astonishingly large number of macros! This is so many that we are talking about a foreign language!	[reply]
Re^5: define analyser - performance problem by grizzley (Chaplain) on Jun 30, 2009 at 09:02 UTC
Well, 13.000 is nothing compared to number of acronyms used in documentation... :)	[reply]