New Parser [Re: GCC 3.3 Branch]

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Monday, December 16, 2002 12:50:49 PM -0800 Devang Patel 
<dpatel@apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 05:04  PM, Jan Hubicka wrote:
>
>>> be moving in the new C++ parser within days, I expect.)
>>
>> Did you made some benchmark on how fast it is realtive to the old
>> parser?
>> Just curious :)
>
> Will it be possible to use old parser also for some time, while new
> parser is stabilizing in mainline?

Yes -- by using the GCC 3.3 branch.

They cannot coexist.  In fact, that's sort of the point; the new parser
will allow us to rip huge hunks of horrid code out of the C++ front end.
Hunks that are both slow and erroneous.

I've run timings, and I'm seeing no appreciable difference between the
parsers.

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