Le 02/08/2012 10:13, Walter Bright a écrit :
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.
That'd be great but . . .
lexer really isn't the performance bottleneck of dmd (or any compiler of
a non trivial language). Additionally, anybody that have touched dmd
source code can agree that usability/maintainability isn't as its best.
Sacrificing some perfs in a non bottleneck area to increase ease of use
make perfect sense.
