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Re: [PATCH] Re: startup speed (or lack thereof)
- To: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: startup speed (or lack thereof)
- From: Dirk Herrmann <dirk at ida dot ing dot tu-bs dot de>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:05:16 +0100 (MET)
- cc: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On 20 Mar 2000, Michael Livshin wrote:
> > > One question I have though is, why aren't we just using flex/bison for
> > > parsing this stuff? It's so much work to do this manually...
> >
> on the serious side, while any YACC-style parser is quite irrelevant
> for Scheme, a Lex-generated tokenizer might be beneficial, speed-wize.
IIRC, flex _and_ all flex generated parsers are GPL code (no LGPL and
obviously also not with guile's exception). However, I may remember wrong
here, or the license may have changed.
Best regards
Dirk Herrmann