Comment by jcelerier
12 hours ago
I don't think this is optimizing for the right thing, I've sat in front of hundreds of gcc & clang compiler time traces and lexing is a minuscule percentage of the time spent in the compiler
12 hours ago
I don't think this is optimizing for the right thing, I've sat in front of hundreds of gcc & clang compiler time traces and lexing is a minuscule percentage of the time spent in the compiler
My point is that it would make simpler for the lexer and for the human being.