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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: syntax-propertize-function vs indentation lexer
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:31:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfvx1hppw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85obbq76hv.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Sat,  01 Jun 2013 01:19:24 -0400")

>> Although, using it for indentation makes speed a real concern:
>> in many cases one does "edit+reindent", so if you put a "full reparse"
>> between the two, it needs to be about as fast as instantaneous.
> That's how my current SMIE-based parser works, and it's "fast enough".

Very interesting.

> I'm working on replacing it with an LALR parser, because the resulting
> code is much cleaner.

Makes sense: if you're going to parse the whole buffer forward anyway,
the limitations of SMIE don't make much sense: they're there
specifically so you can parse backward on-the-fly instead of keeping
a full-parse around.


        Stefan



      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-01 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-29 15:19 syntax-propertize-function vs indentation lexer Stephen Leake
2013-05-29 15:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-29 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30  9:15   ` Stephen Leake
2013-05-30 14:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-31  7:45       ` Stephen Leake
2013-05-31 13:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-01  5:19           ` Stephen Leake
2013-06-01 14:31             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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