[antlr-interest] Lexer speed comparison
Terence Parr
parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Thu Feb 26 11:50:36 PST 2004
On Feb 26, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Tom Zagotta wrote:
> I agree - ANTLR seems to work pretty well (correctness), but what we
> need
> now is SPEED!
>
> We've got ANTLR in a couple of our products, but they parse mainly
> small
> files. Sometimes, however, we will have to parse large files, and I
> think
> we'll have some customer complaints from that.
Do you use a lot of syntactic predicates? Those will destroy
performance for sure.
Ter
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