I mean that I wasn't thinking straight when I sent that. I'm incorrect in every detail of that email.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > Isiah Meadows wrote: >> >> True, and I don't know of a decently fast ES3/5 parser. > > > What is your use-case? For a parser in JS, is > http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/acorn.html too slow? For C++ hand-coded > parser, what's your not-decently-fast benchmark basis code? > >> ES6 will be even more complicated, and thus, slower than an equivalence >> ES3/5 one > > > I don't think ES6 adds anything that changes asymptotic complexity. > Recognizing keywords is still O(k), for example (and k is small and stays > small in ES6 -- number of leading characters to distinguish, e.g.). More > productions in a grammar does not make parsers for that grammar slower, > apart from indirect effects in small memory systems. > > What do you mean here? > > /be -- Isiah Meadows _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
