[antlr-interest] Lexer speed comparison

[Terence Parr]

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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