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Hardcoding Finite State Automata Processing

E Ketcha Ngassam, Bruce W Watson, Derrick G Kourie

Presented at Eighth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2003), July 16-18, 2003 Santa Barbara, CA, USA


Abstract

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