On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:09:00 +0000 via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 November 2014 at 22:00:10 UTC, ketmar via > Digitalmars-d wrote: > > that's why warp is faster than cpp? ;-) > Which implementation of cpp? gcc implementation, afair. it's slowness was the reason for warping. > (Btw, take a look at lexer.c in DMD :-P) c++ has no good string type, so there is no much choice. as a writer of at least four "serious" scripting languages (and alot more as "toy" ones) i can tell you that zero-terminated strings are PITA. the only sane way to write a good lexer is working with structure which emulates D string and slicing (if we must parse text from in-memory buffer, of course).
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