[squeak-dev] HTML parser (again)

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Aug 18 17:02:10 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Andrei Stebakov <lispercat at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've been looking for a nice and fast HTML parser.
> I've found Zulq Alam's Soup
> (http://www.squeaksource.com/@vHckXt8_6gVtXFxy/XMrjDbIs) it looks nice
> but it's way too slow for me (takes 5 sec to parse the page, my
> current lisp parser takes about 1 sec for that.)
>

Have you tried Cog as Laurent suggests?  It may make the difference you
need.  In any case I'd be interested in teh speed comparison.

I found another one, Todd Blanchard's HTML and CSS parser
> (http://www.squeaksource.com/@iMgHmTKVxU00wEdz/A0jkqk71) but I
> couldn't load it into Pharo 1.1 or Squeak 4.1.
> It complains about some syntax error and leaves the progress bar which
> I can't kill...
> I wonder if anyone (Todd?) can take a look at the parser and figure
> out how to fix it?
>
> What other options I have for an HTML parser?
> Looking at Pharo speed I wonder if there is any way to optimize it? Is
> JIT or some other speed optimization in plans for Pharo/Squeak?
>
> Thank you,
> Andrei
>

cheers,
Eliot
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