Subject: Re: [Boost-build] B2 C++ engine development.
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-25 18:19:02
AMDG
On 10/25/2018 11:57 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> <snip>
> PS. One of the first items to think about is writing a new bjam language
> parser. It's about time we stop relying on bison/yacc + the tokenizer :-)
>
What are you planning to replace it with? A manual
recursive descent parser? I'm not sure how much of
a win that is. Anyway, this is one of the last places
that I would touch as it's very stable and isn't a known
performance bottleneck. (I have no problem with bison
in the first place).
In Christ,
Steven Watanabe