From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A possible way for CC Mode to resolve its sluggishness
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 05:34:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnp8yvcz.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv4l6kkzf6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Maybe if we want to speed things up, we should consider a new parsing
> engine (instead of parse-partial-sexp and syntax-tables) based maybe on
> a DFA for the tokenizer and GLR parser on top. That might arguably be
> more generally useful and easier to use (in the sense that one can more
> or less follow the language spec when implementing the major mode).
No parser will provide the information that cc-mode needs to properly
indent and colorize C++ code. Only a C++ front-end, which performs
semantic analysis, knows that information.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-27 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-26 19:30 A possible way for CC Mode to resolve its sluggishness Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-26 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-26 20:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-27 2:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-27 3:34 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2019-04-27 13:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-28 17:32 ` Stephen Leake
2019-04-29 1:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-29 9:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-29 12:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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