BNF grammar for D?

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/11/2014 4:16 a.m., Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 31/10/2014 12:16, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 1/11/2014 12:35 a.m., Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>> On 27/10/2014 22:35, Jeremy Powers via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>>
>>>> An interesting path to take for an intellij plugin would be to use his
>>>> DCD/libdparse for all the heavy lifting, with the plugin just farming
>>>> out the work to external daemon process(es).  That would avoid having
>>>> yet another lexer/parser implementation to keep up to date.
>>>
>>> Integrating DCD might work well, because autocompletion is used
>>> sporadically (and is invoked explicitly by the user). But parsing is
>>> probably invoked quite often by IntelliJ, and as such it could be tricky
>>> to integrate with libdparse (because you'd have to invoke an external
>>> process all the time)
>>
>>  From my small test file with my attempt at this, its fine to call e.g.
>> DScanner to grab the ast. Its actually pretty fast which I was a little
>> shocked about.
>>
>
> How fast is "pretty fast"? Milliseconds please.

I didn't benchmark it. So no idea.