For the lulz: ddmd vs libdparse lexer timings

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 12:39:27 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> Nice!  How far would @forceinline go to getting the same 
> results without the ugly?

@forceinline would solve all of it.

> I don't expect you to do this, but what features would ddmd's 
> lexer need before you could entirely replace libdparse's with 
> it?

It would have to be range-based and be capable of performing 
syntax highlighting. My D lexer is based on lexer generator code 
that might someday become std.lexer, so I want to keep it around 
to make sure that the std.lexer code is good enough.