Very Fast: Directly Coded Lexical Analyzer

[Ronny Peine]

Am Freitag, 10. August 2007 schrieben Sie:
> To me, very fast (millions of lines a second) lexical analyzers are
> trivial to write by hand, and I really don't see the point of tools,
> and certainly not the utility of any theory in writing such code.
> If anything the formalism of a finite state machine just gets in the
> way, since it is more efficient to encode the state in the code
> location than in data.

Well, there are people out there who don't want to write everytime the same 
code. Why not making your life easier with using autogeneration tools, it 
also reduces bugpropability.


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