Let's stop parser Hell

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Saturday, 7 July 2012 at 10:26:39 UTC, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
> I think that Pegged can be heavily optimized in performance, 
> and there are no
> fundamental issues which would make it inherently slower than 
> LALR or a hand-written D-specific parser.

Hmm... found an interesting article: 
http://www.antlr.org/papers/LL-star-PLDI11.pdf

It describes some disadvantages of Packrat parsing, like problems 
with debugging and error recovery. These are important for DCT, 
so I'll have to perform additional research.