RE: cost of popen()

[Bakken, Luke]

Hideki IWAMOTO wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:01:14 +0900, Shigio Yamaguchi wrote...
>> Currently, the interface is in command layer. This brings the
>> performance problem to gtags, because  the command call far costs
>> than the function call. To solve the problem, we should move the
>> interface from the command layer 
>> to the function layer, that is, links gtags-parser as part of gtags.
> 
> Does this mean stopping supporting plug-in parser?

It shouldn't if the parser API is defined well. You could even support
dynamic objects for plug-in parsers.

I like the idea!

Luke