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From: johnl@ima.UUCP
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Subject: re:re: parsing C
Message-ID: <294@ima.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 11:48:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 11 11:48:33 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 00:21:11 EST
Reply-To: Paul Tarvydas 
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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
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