You might also consider JFlex (http://jflex.de/) -- I haven't done much with either JavaCC or JFlex other than modify existing grammars, but the Lucene guys moved from JavaCC to JFlex for their tokenizer - http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-966. If I remember correctly, two benefits were (1) faster tokenizing, and (2) simpler grammar definition. Performance probably isn't an issue for Thrift, but a simpler grammar may be. As I said, I can't give a good comparison but maybe someone else on the mailing list can. -chris
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Bryan Duxbury <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems like there's some consensus on a JavaCC based compiler. Should we > open an JIRA issue and start to explore feasibility? > -Bryan > > >
