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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: 0.249s | source
1. JonChesterfield ◴[14 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44562504[source]▶
Byte at a time means not-fast but I suppose it's all relative. The benchmarks would benefit from a re2c version, I'd expect that to beat the computed goto one. Easier for the compiler to deal with, mostly.