Am 03.08.2012 08:37, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
On 2012-08-03 00:01, Walter Bright wrote:
But we do have the DMD lexer which is useful as a benchmark and a guide.
I won't say it couldn't be made faster, but it does set a minimum bar
for performance.
I'm not sure how easy it would be to just measure the lexing phase of
DMD. If it's easy someone would probably already have extracted the
lexer from DMD.
wouldn't it be better to extract the lexer part of dmd into its own
(hopefully small) library - that way the lexer is still useable by dmd
AND benchmarkable from outside - it is then even possible to replace the
dmd lexer by an D version due to the c linkage feature of D
