std.d.lexer: pre-voting review / discussion

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, September 12, 2013 23:55:23 Robert Schadek wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 11:03 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> >> Maybe some fixed size stack vector with 64 elements or so and some
> >> linked list for the unusual case would help ..
> > 
> > And an extra branch to detect which one is currently the case? No,
> > thanks ;)
> 
> I would think that branching and using the vector is faster than using
> the constructing and linking nodes in the LL

Well, it sounds like there are several ideas to try out in this thread. I 
guess that only benchmarking and profiling will really tell us which (if any) 
are better though.

- Jonathan M Davis