[metaas-dev] Re: Unicode identifiers (Was: No viable alternative error)

[David Holroyd]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:50:05AM +0000, David Holroyd wrote:
> My hope is that all the additional cost is paid in the call,
> 
>   new AS3Lexer(..)
> 
> and that by caching the lexer instance and reusing it, things will
> perform just as they did before, even with all of the aditional
> characters which are supported.  (The lexer in not thread-safe, so there
> can't just be a singleton instance shared by the whole app.)

I've just seen a message on antlr-interest where Ter talks about some
new optimisations in antlr-03-22-2007.18.tar.gz which might actually
address the slowdown I noticed.  Will try to take a look over the
weekend.


ta,
dave

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