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[Python-Dev] Lexing/parsing

[Python-Dev] Lexing/parsing [Python-Dev] Lexing/parsingEric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:58:39 -0400
Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>:
> I pointed one of my co-workers at Spark and he loved the lexer but said
> that the parser ended up being too slow to be useful. I didn't know
> enough about the Earley-algorithm to suggest how he could re-organize
> his grammar to optimize for it. If naive Python programmers cannot
> generate usable parsers then it may not be appropriate for the standard
> library.

I'm using a SPARK-generated parser plus shlex in CML2.  This does not seem
to create a speed problem.
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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