[antlr-interest] Any plans of next ANTLR Release

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Fri Apr 30 17:38:48 PDT 2010


On Apr 30, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Jim Idle wrote:

> It will be easier to write backends as no template code for lexers. Implement a simple vm and you are done. Then improvements in the vm will improve all lexers. I will likely do a C vm and a couple of assembly versions for intel etc

It's also all about the cache misses these days. thousands of lines of java code will likely blow out the cache.  The small VM and small lexer representation should fit nicely in instr and data caches.

Ter


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