std.d.lexer requirements

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, August 02, 2012 01:13:04 Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

How would we measure that? dmd's lexer is tied to dmd, so how would we test 
the speed of only its lexer?

- Jonathan M Davis