What would need to be done to get sdc.lexer to std.lexer quality?

[Bernard Helyer]

On Thursday, 2 August 2012 at 20:05:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/2/2012 12:22 AM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
>> Gonna spend some time massaging this into a
>> Walter-Approved (tm) lexer. It's got some ways to go.
>
>
> Thank you. I've got a lot of experience writing lexers and 
> heavily using them professionally, but I'm still finding ways 
> to make them better - faster - more encapsulated.
>
> Since std.d.lexer won't be a third party module, but one that 
> comes with a compiler, it must pass muster as a top quality one 
> and be as good as the one in the compiler.

I will make it my mission to kick your
(metaphorical performance based) ass, sir.