On Thursday, August 02, 2012 01:13:04 Walter Bright wrote: > On 8/2/2012 12:33 AM, Bernard Helyer wrote: > > On Thursday, 2 August 2012 at 07:29:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >> The lexer MUST MUST MUST be FAST FAST FAST. Or it will not be useful. If > >> it > >> isn't fast, serious users will eschew it and will cook up their own. > >> You'll > >> have a nice, pretty, useless toy of std.d.lexer. > > > > If you want to throw out some target times, that would be useful. > > As fast as the dmd one would be best.
How would we measure that? dmd's lexer is tied to dmd, so how would we test the speed of only its lexer? - Jonathan M Davis