jansvoboda11 added a comment.

In D120334#3338314 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D120334#3338314>, @yurai007 wrote:

> In D120334#3337961 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D120334#3337961>, @jansvoboda11 
> wrote:
>
>> The performance implications are pretty interesting! Have you tried avoiding 
>> the copy altogether by just storing the reference?
>
> Yes, actually that was my first attempt but I failed miserably. 
> LangOpts::LineComment is mutated in Lexer so LangOpts cannot be simply 
> const&. Making it non-const reference is technically doable with some extra 
> adjustment for Lexer constructors.
> However I'm worried a bit how it would impact external LangOpts users after 
> mutating LineComment member by Lexer.  As long as LangOpts acts as simple 
> cache it's easy to reason about but when we start to share it with Lexer 
> callers I'm not longer sure. That's why eventually base class approach was 
> chosen.

Got it. It seems like getting rid of the `LineComment` mutation would be pretty 
straightforward though. I don't expect any big perf win by replacing copy of a 
handful of bitfields with indirection, but it would be interesting to see the 
experiment nonetheless.


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