std.d.lexer requirements

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Aug 2 01:13:04 PDT 2012


On 8/2/2012 12:33 AM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 August 2012 at 07:29:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> The lexer MUST MUST MUST be FAST FAST FAST. Or it will not be useful. If it
>> isn't fast, serious users will eschew it and will cook up their own. You'll
>> have a nice, pretty, useless toy of std.d.lexer.
>
> If you want to throw out some target times, that would be useful.

As fast as the dmd one would be best.



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