Re: std.d.lexer: pre-voting review / discussion

[Robert Schadek]

On 09/12/2013 04:21 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 03:39 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 9/11/2013 6:30 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> Indeed. What solution do you have in mind ?
>>
>> The solution dmd uses is to put in an intermediary layer that saves the
>> lookahead tokens in a linked list.
>
> Linked list sounds bad.
> Do you have a rough idea how often lookahead is needed, i.e. is it
> performance relevant? If so it might be worth tuning.
Maybe some fixed size stack vector with 64 elements or so and some
linked list for the unusual case would help ..