On 9 Jan 2013, at 18:20, Gautam Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to discuss a particular performance issue and how I tried to fix it. I > am wondering why it is not part of the default scanner generated by flex > because I think the developers must have seen this too.
Flex is currently not developed or maintained, it seems. But a known problem is that rules that capture a lot of input slows the lexer down. So, for example, scanning for a comment spanning several lines is better done line by line. Does your patch fix that problem? Hans _______________________________________________ help-flex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-flex
