On 22 Mar 2009, at 22:22, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>>> calculate it on-error, and not take the cost of calculating it >>> normally. >> >> I'm not convinced it's possible to calculate it on-error, since many >> errors happen after tokenization has already occured. I know at least >> the Python implementation always calculates this. > > Would having a method that calculated it not be equally usable as it > is now? Remember the Python impl. has the advantage of not having to > deal with UTF-8 in interpreted code, which helps massively on this > (indeed, it is probably the right choice for the Python > implementation). Also, to put numbers where my mouth is: removing the column and line- tracking from the normal code flow _halves_ the time taken to tokenize the spec. -- Geoffrey Sneddon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "html5lib-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/html5lib-discuss?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
