AMDG
On 10/25/2018 11:57 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> <snip>
> PS. One of the first items to think about is writing a new bjam language
> parser. It's about time we stop relying on bison/yacc + the tokenizer :-)
>
What are you planning to replace it with? A manual
recursive descent parser?
Yes.
I'm not sure how much of
a win that is. Anyway, this is one of the last places
that I would touch as it's very stable and isn't a known
performance bottleneck. (I have no problem with bison
in the first place).
The one item it can get us is more flexibility in needing spaces to separate tokens. As it's easier to handle this in particular context sensitive locations. But I don't feel particularly tied to this.