Michael Knight wrote:
Hi all,
I'm starting an honours year at uni this year. My supervisor and I are
thinking of doing a paper on trying to determine if memory-mapping
source files will speed up the lexical analysis phase of various
compilers (instead of whatever buffering method it currently employs).
Wooo, a fellow compiler geek. Cool. I have no heard of any papers on the subject you mention, no. May I ask who your supervisor is (and at what university?)
If you're interested in "unique" uses for compiler technology, you might my open source project interesting:
http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/
We do it all backwards :)
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