Hello Zeev, yeah! which is why there is no need to do anything on that front :-)
marcus Friday, March 10, 2006, 12:26:20 AM, you wrote: > No speed boost with opcode caches, which will be bundled in PHP 6 :) > Zeev > At 01:15 10/03/2006, Marcus Boerger wrote: >>Hello Sara, >> >> but if we were moving from flex to re2c for that tokenizing scripts we'd >>get a nice speed boost, too. Typically re2c based scanners are 2 to 3 times >>faster than lex based ones. And oh-re2c allows unicode scanning (2 byte >>input) and you can use the same .re to generate two .c files if necessary. >> >>best regards >>matcus >> >>Thursday, March 9, 2006, 6:44:45 PM, you wrote: >> >> >>> The inability to inject tokens and expressions into the lexer and >> >>> parser is another limitation on what can be done from extensions in >> >>> terms of syntax level features. Yes, I know this is more of a problem >> >>> with bison and flex than with the design of ZE, but that doesn't make >> >>> it any less bothersome. >> >> >> >> Do other compiler tools allow this? >> >> >> > I've heard second hand that lemon does. But I'm quite certain that >> > rewriting the lexer/parser is not at the top of the list of >> productive ways >> > to advance the language. >> >> > -Sara >> >> >> >> >>Best regards, >> Marcus >> >>-- >>PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
