Re: genautomata progress bars tweak

[law at redhat dot com]

In message <4002D99B.FDD5E92C@redhat.com>, Vladimir Makarov writes:
 >Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 >> 
 >> Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@redhat.com> writes:
 >> 
 >> > Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 >> 
 >> I think the point is to have this option off by default - and if you
 >> develop it, you can enable it yourself.  So, I would do:
 >>  o add an option to enable all output.  By default no output is
 >>    printed.
 >> 
 >
 >Yes, that is better.  I'll make it.
 >
 >Sorry, that I was too slow with my previous response which resulted that
 >you already done the patch.  I'd still prefer to have a progress bar for
 >debugging.  The progress bar was not my invention. 
I wouldn't object if the progress bar was off by default, but could be
turned on by a switch or magic in the automata -- similarly for the
automata state information (which as I said it useful sometimes).

 >It was a requirement from people who wrote DFA description.
Understood -- though that was probably due in part to the earlier versions
of genautomata being rather slow and the developers themselves not being
aware of the kinds constructs which would cause the automata to blow up.

genautomata is quite a bit faster now :-)  Which reminds me, didn't Zdenek
have a change to speed up genautomata further (or was that genattrtab?)


jeff