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Strategies for Fast Lexers

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180 points xnacly | 1 comments | 14 Jul 25 14:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.339s | source
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cratermoon ◴[14 Jul 25 15:21 UTC] No.44561251[source]▶
... written in C.

Not sure how many of these translate to other languages.

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1. xnacly ◴[14 Jul 25 15:48 UTC] No.44561570[source]▶
Most of them, jump tables work in rust, mmapping too. deferred numeric parsing, keeping allocations to a minimum, string slices, interning and inline hashing all work in rust, go, c, c++; you name it.