[antlr-interest] Profiler 2

[Terence Parr]

On Dec 1, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Micheal J wrote:

>> One point here.  The "8% throw" is because in C++, exceptions
>> are supposed to be, well, exceptional (i.e., rare).
>
> I think it's true for Java/C# too. Especially C# (exceptional  
> exception
> costs imo).
>
>> The cost of speculative lookahead is horrid.
>
> Yep.

I think I know how to easily do syntactic predicates now without  
exceptions :)

Ter