[antlr-interest] C++ beginner questions

[Akhilesh Mritunjai]

Oh, bloodless wars are fun :)

Point in case, in our case Java parser was 2x faster
than C++ parser... both using automatic memory
management (C++ using ref counts).

Oh, and it used 33% less memory too as extra topping.

(Right now I'm playing with a 3.75M node AST generated
with this baby).

- Akhilesh

--- Martin Probst <mail at martin-probst.com> wrote:
> > I also keep scratching my head thinking, "What's
> the
> > point of compilers implemented in Java?".  It's
> 
> Well, what's the problem about Parsers/Compilers in
> Java? Actually the
> Java version of ANTLR v2 is significantly faster
> than the C++ part. 
> The only problem you might run into is the JVM
> startup overhead, if you
> compile file by file on the command line.



		
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