std.d.lexer requirements

[dennis luehring]

Am 02.08.2012 10:13, schrieb Walter Bright:
> 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.
>

would it be (easily) possible to "extract" the dmd lexer code (and 
needed interface) for using it as an spererated benchmark reference?