[antlr-interest] ANTLR performance

Kay Röpke kroepke at classdump.org
Fri Jan 16 11:14:13 PST 2009


On Jan 16, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Terence Parr wrote:

> Wow...56% is parsing/lexing.

yeah, that's why the llvm/clang folks spent so much time on their c/c+ 
+ frontend.
the compiler itself is plenty fast, but preprocessed code is huge.
actually gcc isn't the benchmark any more, for certain things clang is  
much much faster.

cheers,
-k


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