Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.compilers Subject: re:re: parsing C Message-ID: <294@ima.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 11:48:33 EST Article-I.D.: ima.294 Posted: Thu Dec 11 11:48:33 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 00:21:11 EST Reply-To: Paul TarvydasLines: 17 Approved: Silly me. Like yourself, I've never seen a practical parser which is a time bottle-neck. I *meant* to say that I was worried about space- efficiency. I had thought that building a parser by hand would result in a smaller compiler - the trade-off being the time taken to build and debug such a beast. Now I'm not so sure, since by the time I annotate the recursive-descent code with enough flags to be able to make interesting semantic distinctions of the parse, I might end up with about the same amount of code. Any comments on that front? thank you, Paul Tarvydas ...utcsri!tarvydas -- Send compilers mail to ima!compilers or, in a pinch to Levine@YALE.EDU Plausible paths are { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale | bbncca}!ima Please send responses to the originator of the message -- I cannot forward mail accidentally sent back to compilers. Meta-mail to ima!compilers-request