Request for comments: std.d.lexer

Mehrdad wfunction at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 28 03:34:29 PST 2013


On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 11:01:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/28/2013 2:16 AM, dennis luehring wrote:
>> Am 28.01.2013 11:13, schrieb Walter Bright:
>>> On 1/28/2013 1:30 AM, Mehrdad wrote:
>>>> I'm wondering if there's any way to make it independent of 
>>>> the code/grammar
>>>
>>> Just run under a profiler, then fix the hot spots.
>>>
>>
>> mehrdad speaks about benchmarking not optimization :)
>
> I know. But profiling is how you make it fast. Lexers should be 
> as fast as possible, not merely faster than the competition.



I was talking about parsers actually :| on a second thought maybe 
I shouldn't have asked that on a thread about lexing...


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