Re: [Boost-build] B2 C++ engine development.

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] B2 C++ engine development.
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-25 18:23:47

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:19 PM Steven Watanabe via Boost-build <
boost-build_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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.

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