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Re:The Super Tiny Compiler by vitiral on Thursday March 02, 2023 @08:45PM (#35004765)
I think most programming languages tokenize first. Tokenizing is absurdly fast, like 100x faster than printing to a terminal.
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Re:The Super Tiny Compiler by majewsky on Friday March 03, 2023 @07:20AM (#35008560)
> Tokenizing is absurdly fast

is rather a very good reason to interleave tokenizing and parsing. Otherwise your tokenizer will just get stuck in iowait for no good reason.

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Re:The Super Tiny Compiler by vitiral on Saturday March 04, 2023 @08:18PM (#35026181)
Sure, if shaving a millisecond off the execution time of your compiler is your idea of a good time.
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