Preliminary experiments in hardcoding finite automata

  • Authors:
  • E. Ketcha Ngassam;Bruce W. Watson;Derrick G. Kourie

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa;Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa;Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • CIAA'03 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Implementation and application of automata
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Various experiments in hardcoding a single row of a transition table of a finite state machine directly into symbol- recognizing code are presented. Measurements are provided to show the time efficiency gains by various hardcoded versions over the traditional table-driven algorithm.