Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:01:38 -0700
> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, rms@gnu.org,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> The model I've had in mind for dealing with parse ambiguity is an 
> incremental GLR parser generating a parse forest, pruning the forest by 
> constraint solving on ad-hoc language specific constraints, then picking 
> one of the remaining parse trees incrementally to fontify.

I'm not an expert in this area: is this different from what
tree-sitter does?  If so, what are the main differences?