[viff-devel] Yet another SFDL parser

[Martin Geisler]

Mikkel Krøigård <mk at cs.au.dk> writes:

>> In Amsterdam we were asked about how long it would take, and I
>> didn't have a good answer. Can you try to give a time estimate that
>> we can tell the FairPlay guys?
>
> It's kind of hard to tell how long it will take, but I have a gut
> feeling that says that the basic functionality could be implemented
> very quickly (a matter of a few days concentrated effort at most),
> of course excluding the obligatory polishing phase which always
> takes forever.
>
> I can and will do this on the condition that we agree 100% that we
> don't do things in parallel :)

Definitely a good idea :-)

> However, we talked about this loss of momentum earlier. Up until
> Christmas, I am still teaching 2 classes and I think it would be a
> mistake for me to promise anything until January.

That sounds very good to me!

> Since ANTLR doesn't make it easy for us to to handle these "int
> <size>" things, let's just use the parser you made.

Okay, good. It also comes with a fairly large set of unit tests, which
I found usefull while working with it. I have it as a patch queue here
on DAIMI -- you can clone that or convert it to a normal repository
and clone that instead.

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.