What's going on with std.experimental.lexer?

Dicebot via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 5 03:57:35 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 21:12:25 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> I've been looking at ways to optimize the D lexer's operation 
> using SIMD instructions. I'm not yet sure if I'll need to 
> change the lexer generator's API to do this. I'm going to wait 
> until I have my proof-of-concept code and some benchmark 
> results before asking for a voting thread or creating a pull 
> request.

I still thing we should use it more like `std.staging` - once 
your updates are ready, go through review/voting and keep module 
in `std.experimental` for at least one DMD release before adding 
to Phobos core.

This also means relaxing API requirements a lot for initial 
inclusion.


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