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

Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 9 14:15:16 PDT 2014


On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 10:57:37 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> 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.

I am more for "stdx", which is what some developers already use 
as package name for experimental stuff.


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