Request for comments: std.d.lexer

[Walter Bright]

On 1/28/2013 3:34 AM, Mehrdad wrote:
> 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
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>>>> Just run under a profiler, then fix the hot spots.
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>>> mehrdad speaks about benchmarking not optimization :)
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>> I know. But profiling is how you make it fast. Lexers should be as fast as
>> possible, not merely faster than the competition.
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> I was talking about parsers actually :| on a second thought maybe I shouldn't
> have asked that on a thread about lexing...

Same comment applies.