sexp_benchmark.rb

require 'benchmark'

require 'sexpistol'
require 'sxp'

class Lexer 
  def initialize(str)
    @str = str
    @p = 0 
  end
  
  def next_token
    while true
      case c
      when nil
        return @token = nil
      when ' ', "\n", "\r", "\t"
        @p += 1
        next
      when '('
        @p += 1
        return @token = :'('
      when ')'
        @p += 1
        return @token = :')'
      when '"'
        start = @p
        while c! != '"' && c != nil
        end
        @p += 1
        return @token = @str[start + 1 ... @p - 1]
      when /[0-9\+\-]/
        start = @p
        @p += 1
        while true
          case c
          when /[0-9]/
            @p += 1
          else
            break
          end
        end
        return @token = @str[start ... @p].to_i
      when /[a-zA-Z\_]/
        start = @p
        while true
          case c
          when /[a-zA-Z0-9\_]/
            @p += 1
          else
            break
          end
        end
        return @token = @str[start ... @p].to_sym
      else
        raise 'Invalid character'
      end
    end
  end
  
  def c
    x = @str[@p]
  end
  
  def c!
    @p += 1
    c
  end
end

class Parser < Lexer
  def self.parse(str)
    Parser.new(str).parse
  end
  
  def parse
    exp = []
    while true
      case next_token
      when :'('
        exp << parse
        raise 'Missing closing parenthesis' if @token != :')'
      when :')'
        break
      when String, Fixnum, Symbol
        exp << @token
      when nil
        break
      end
    end
    exp
  end
end

example_sexp = <<-EOD
((display "This is a test string!")

(define test (lambda () (begin
  (display (+ 1 1))
  (display (+ true true))
  (display (+ false false))
  (display (+ nil nil))
  (display (+ 2 1))
  (display (+ 26 212))
))))
EOD

Benchmark.bmbm do |b|
  b.report("Sexpistol") do
    5000.times do
      parser = Sexpistol.new
      test = parser.parse_string(example_sexp)
    end
  end
  
  b.report("SXP") do
    5000.times do
      test = SXP.read(example_sexp)
    end
  end
  
  b.report("Ary") do
    5000.times do 
      test = Parser.parse(example_sexp)
    end
  end
end