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Re:Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course by knuthsat on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:23PM (#25390475)
Parser combinators allow elegant implementations of parsing but are ridiculously slow compared to some Knuth-optimized parsers.
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Re:Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course by mafribe on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:58PM (#25391781)
As elegant as parser combinators are, it is not so easy to work out exactly what grammar they are implementing.
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Re:Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course by ibains on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:02AM (#25395722)
packrat parsers are fast (at expense of some memory)
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