[antlr-interest] Profiler 2

[Terence Parr]

On Dec 1, 2005, at 11:50 PM, Martin Probst wrote:
> I consider myself being part of that group, too. However we don't have
> any performance problems using Java ANTLR with a handwritten Lexer and
> no ()=> at all. Or at least no real problems - faster is always  
> better,
> but our parser munges through all queries in a couple of ms.

Yes, I'm pretty sure the lexer mechanism is *the* main bottleneck in  
v2 and then overuse of (...)=> predicates.

The new lexers are much more efficient and there is PLENTY of room to  
remove the obvious stupid generated code; I'll get to that later when  
I finish all functionality.

Ter