[metaas-dev] Re: Unicode identifiers

[David Holroyd]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:25:47AM +0000, David Holroyd wrote:
> 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.

Current ANTLR builds have problems with the AS3 grammar :(

  http://www.antlr.org:8080/pipermail/antlr-interest/2007-March/019890.html


Oh well,
dave

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