N-Way Split really fast goto-driven FSM/what is it?

[Stephen Bannasch]

I couldn't find any information on this Ragel code generation style:

   -P<N>  N-Way Split really fast goto-driven FSM.

What is it, what kind of machines is it useful for, and what values 
of N are reasonable?

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- Stephen Bannasch
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