Re: [boost] Clang: Open-source C/C++ front end under development

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-01 17:20:55

David Abrahams wrote:

> 
> on Sat Sep 01 2007, Chris Lattner <clattner-AT-apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> Can you give me a specific example of where making the entire lexer a
>> template would be more useful than adding a couple of virtual method
>> calls?  It isn't meaningful to lex anything other than a sequence of
>> char's
> 
> You're serious?  It's meaningless to lex UTF-32?

Do you expect a modern compiler to include those specialization:

        - lexer<ascii>
        - lexer<utf8>
        - lexer<utf32>
        - lexer<koi8-r>
        - ....
        - lexer<klingon standard encoding>

all together? How much that will be, like 1G of code space just for lexer?

- Volodya