On 1/27/2013 2:17 AM, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
Walter seems to think if a lexer is not able to vomit thousands
of tokens a seconds, then it's not good.

Speed is critical for a lexer.

This means, for example, you'll need to squeeze pretty much all storage allocation out of it. A lexer that does an allocation per token will is not going to do very well at all.

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