D:YAML 0.1

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-17 13:08, Kiith-Sa wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Does the parser/lexer take advantage of D's slices to make it faster?
>>
>
> In some places, yes, in some places, no. I didn't concentrate on preventing
> new strings from being allocated, but a lot of string data should pass
> through the code unchanged, with just slices changing. Phobos functions
> should help with that (E.g: afaik when you split() a string, you just get
> slices to the same string data?). Still, the parser, scanner (and composer)
> are precisely the parts of code that were ported from PyYAML, and the code
> is mostly similar to PyYAML.

Ok, I see. It should be possible to create a parser that doesn't 
allocate memory, only uses slicing. A great example of that is the XML 
module in Tango.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg