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- From: andrewb@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berg)
- Subject: Re: Is this a new idea?
- Reply-To: andrewb@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berg)
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering Dept., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:38:33 GMT
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <92-11-080@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: lex, parse, performance
- References: <92-11-056@comp.compilers>
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- Pre-tokenization is probably a good idea, but one that Borland has used
- since Borland C++ 2.0 is pre-compiled headers. They have (needlessly)
- strict rules on what the system will do, but since header files in C
- typically only introduce information to the symbol table anyhow (at least
- in my header files) this would seem to me to be a real advantage in any
- large system.
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