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Re:Pratt parsing is a black box by teleforce on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:49PM (#50361597)
> Packrat isn't really a parsing algorithm - the PEG is the parsing algorithm. Packrat is instead an optimisation that can be transparently applied to a PEG [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20502974

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