Re: Nested comments

[Hans Aberg]

At 12:16 -0400 2003/07/07, address@hidden wrote:
>>Actually, your suggestion takes 22% longer time... :
>-)
>
>That's odd. I benchmarked my code against yours before
>posting and saw consistent decrease in running time, by
>approximately 12%. Must be the input or the compiler
>variation.

The timing will probably vary considerably with the input: It looks as
though the lexer will choke on rule matches beyond a certain length. So if
your input sample provides that, one will get high timings.



  Hans Aberg