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Subject: Re: LALR parser question
Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 04:39:25 +0200
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Le Thu, 02 May 2013 03:49:53 +0200, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com=
>  =

a =C3=A9crit:
> I tend to agree that the speed of parsing doesn't matter that much, bu=
t  =

> you
> would be surprised at how slow some compilers were at parsing and synt=
ax
> analysis, especially before GNAT came out. We actually had a pretty  =

> decent
> business from companies that bought our fast compiler just to do
> pre-compiles on before using their main development slug to build the =
 =

> actual
> system.

More precisely, is there an average picture? What is considered fast and=
  =

what is considered slow? Which amount of sample Ada sources parsed in  =

which amount of time? How slow was their =E2=80=9Cmain development slug=E2=
=80=9D? How fast  =

is Janus Ada compared to theirs?


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=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
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