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Re:String tokenization in C by hermitdev on Saturday December 15, 2018 @04:35PM (#18690463)
There are valuable use cases where this matters. For example, parsing FIX messages in finance, this allows you to parse the tag/value pairs with no memory allocations, which matters in low latency HFT applications.
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Re:String tokenization in C by quotemstr on Saturday December 15, 2018 @04:40PM (#18690484)
If you want speed, just build a lexer with ragel [1]. It's hard to go faster than a DFA.

[1] http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

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