Future of Descent and D Eclipse IDE

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 05/28/2010 05:49 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>
> What do mean slow side? And what things can it parse that DMD can't? (I
> wasn't aware there were things DMD could not parse)
>

There's a few corner cases. eg:

int delegate()[] i = [{while(true){}}];

I think they're all in bugzilla.

If you want a gauge on speed, it usually takes 10 to 15 seconds to parse 
through all of tango's code. (As an LL(k) parser, ANTLR requires 
lookahead in places that dmd doesn't.)