Request for comments: std.d.lexer

[Mehrdad]

On Friday, 1 February 2013 at 07:41:11 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 12:14:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
> wrote:
>> Just thinking out loud here. Would it be possible to lex a 
>> file in parallel? Cutting it in half (or similar) and lex both 
>> pieces simultaneously in parallel.
>
> I think a lexer should be IO-bound on todays machines, so 
> parallelizing should not give much benefits.

Pretty sure RAMs these days can handle more than 1 processor's 
memory request at a given point in time, so there should be an 
N-times speedup, where N maxes out at the max throughput...