[antlr-interest] ANTLRworks stability?

Gerald B. Rosenberg gbr at newtechlaw.com
Wed Nov 21 21:48:56 PST 2007


Are you allocating a large enough VM heap size?

At 09:33 PM 11/21/2007, you wrote:
>Just wondering if I'm the only one for whom ANTLRworks is very
>unstable. I'm running v1.1.4 on Windows XP, on two different machines,
>and on both it freezes up very often on my main grammar project (300
>lines or so). In fact, at the moment, I can basically load it, make a
>tweak, debug it *once*, then the next time I debug, it will freeze.
>Shut down the java window, reload, start again.
>
>Is there anything I can do to improve its stability? Would running on
>VMware help, and if so, which is the best platform?
>
>It generally seems to be  freezing in the "generating code" phase,
>about halfway through - the window gradually becomes more and more
>unresponsive before it finally stops responding altogether.
>
>If stability is a general problem, how do most people develop with
>ANTLR? Do you just forego ANTLRWorks altogether except for small
>tests?
>
>ANTLRWorks reports:
>ANTLR: 3.0.1
>StringTemplate: 3.1b1
>XLibrary: 2.0
>Java: 1.6.0_03 (I also have J2SE runtime environment 5.0 update 9 installed)
>
>Thanks for any suggestions.
>Steve

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