[fpc-devel] Alternative parsers

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Martin Schreiber schrieb:

>> This is a typical showcase for the premature micro-optimization --
>> for a few percentages of speed in the short term,
>> you pay in reduced code maintainability,
>> which precludes high-level optimizations in the long term.
> 
> IIRC one of the goals are to enable muti threaded compiling.

According to the preceding discussion.

> I have a horror 
> from that scenario. It is difficult enough to produce a stable single 
> threaded compiler.

Well, it's a matter of models, patterns and structure. Something not 
found in the current compiler sources :-(

> I can't believe that it is possible to make a good multi 
> core aware compiler without a team of highest skilled fulltime developers 
> working several years...

I could have done it alone, in about half a year. Once the evitable 
global variables have been removed, most of the job is done.

DoDi